Acknowledgements
I thank everyone who has provided me with inspiration. Those people I am fortunate enough to call supportive family and true friends, all my math gurus, and my grandpa Zoltan and my grandma Gabriella for being totally awesome and zen.
My Business Calculus class Dr. Zeitz for making me realize mathematicians are cool, Dr. Lombardi, my Calculus One teacher, for being one of my best teachers even if I have never met him in person, my patient Vector Calculus tutor Dr. Cheah, my college Writing Professor DiPirro who implored me to never stop writing, my good friend Leon Thomas, and all those bright young minds who I have had the chance to call my students.
I also would like to thank the mathematicians Alex Bogomolny from cut-the-knot.org and Dr. Bollman from Albion College for their meaningful ideas for improving this book, which I hope I have faithfully done.
Finally, I would like to applaud those who challenge traditional ways of thinking, people like Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, Michio Kaku, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Garrett Lisi and Cliff Pickover. Cheers at the forefront of wonder and awe.
Jeff