Alone in a conference room, a young researcher, Kurt Weil, worked on a mathematical formula that would include time in the analysis of student test results. Little did he know that his success would lead to unraveling the secrets of an ancient Indian mathematician and, with it, the discovery of a powerful, new technology (the torus). It would, by accident, lead to interfering with terrorists intent on bombing Washington, D.C., and, with that, to raising...