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Ray Kurzweil
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Ray Kurzweil is one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America."Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first...
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Amir Alexander
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Amir Alexander is a writer, historian, and mathematician living in Los Angeles.
His latest book, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, brings to life the fierce struggles surrounding the infinitely small in the 17th century. At stake, he shows, was not just a mathematical concept, but the shape of the modern world, its social hierarchies and political order. The book is coming out in April of 2014, and will also be published in the UK, Japan, Brazil, and Romania.
In his previous book, "Duel at Dawn" (2010) , he offered a look at three romantic...
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