The Alien IQ Test: Are We Up to the Challenge?

by Clifford A. Pickover

Book Overview

Challenging, provocative exercises in mental acuity test mathematical prowess, abstract reasoning, and even moral sensitivity and human concepts of beauty. Includes such mind-bogglers as "The Omega... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465001106
• ISBN13: 9780465001101
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Twists your brain and takes you to a higher plane

This book is a marvelous collection of puzzles and artwork meant to take the reader to a higher plane of existence and thinking. The puzzles are varied and test everything from your moral and ethical choices to higher mathematics. I have never seen a puzzle book quite like this, and I love to dip into it over and over again. Good for children and adults. A great onversation piece to bring to parties. Here is the book's table of contents: Preface Chapter 1. Who This Book is For Chapter 2. Symbols and Difficulty Levels Chapter 3. Alien Tiles Chapter 4. Alien Sperm Chapter 5. Alien Ellipses Chapter 6. Alien Repeats Chapter 7. Alien Matrix Chapter 8. Internal Organs Chapter 9. Alien Dissection Chapter 10. Alien Addition Chapter 11. Hyperdimensional Sz'kwa Chapter 12. Alien Spiral Chapter 13. Survival on Arcturus Chapter 14. Alien Medallion with Lights Chapter 15. The Omega Prism Chapter 16. Alien Worm Chapter 17. Alien Homoptera Chapter 18. Star Chart Chapter 19. Alien Spores 1 Chapter 20. Alien Spores 2 Chapter 21. Alien Spores 3 Chapter 22. Alien Spores 4 Chapter 23. Alien Spores 5 Chapter 24. Rubik's Tesseract Chapter 25. Animal Eye Chapter 26. Cosmic Rosetta Stone Chapter 27. Alien Ants in Hyperspace Chapter 28. A Severed Human Finger Chapter 29. The Antikythera Mechanism Chapter 30. Alien Scrambling Chapter 31. Alien Aesthetics Chapter 32. Alien Knowledge and Talent Chapter 33. The Sagittarius Maneuver Chapter 34. Siriusian Geometry Chapter 35. Human Brains in a Jar Chapter 36. Human Belief Structure Chapter 37. Contact from the Pleiades Chapter 38. The Elk Hunter's Abduction Chapter 39. Loss of Scientific Knowledge Chapter 40. Aliens and Sprinklers Chapter 41. Unanswered Questions Chapter 42. Moral and Emotional Choices of Humans Chapter 43. Coded Transmission

Unbelievably Compelling. Strange. Fun.

My friend is a school teacher and uses this book to get her students to think. It's a good puzzle book for all ages. Youngsters can attack some of the easier problems. Adults can try to tackle some of the harder problems. The fantastic alien artwork makes the book of special interest. Anyone who buys this mind-shattering book is sure to change the way they think about the people with whom we share this planet. Wild! My favorite puzzle is called "Survival on Arcturus." Try it.

Fascinating!

The Alien IQ Test was fascinating reading. I especially liked some of the puzzles toward the end dealing with art and human emotion!

"Ingenious twist by the master..." - T. Pappas

"If earthly problems and puzzles have become too mundane for you -- match wits with those in Pickover's new and literally far out The Alien IQ Test. Another ingenious twist by a master of puzzles and brainteasers." - Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics

"The most original and challenging puzzle book."-Ian Stewart

"The Alien IQ Test is the most original -- and challenging -- puzzle book for years. Clifford Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us." - Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Author of Nature's Numbers, and Scientific American Columnist