ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

Rudy Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher.

Best known (in the field of mathematics) for his work Infinity and the Mind.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky

Publications

Non-fiction

• 1977: Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension
• 1980: Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles H. Hinton (as editor)
• 1982: Infinity and the Mind
• 1985: The Fourth Dimension
• 1987: Mind Tools
• 1991: All the Visions (memoir)
• 1999: Seek! (collected essays)
• 2002: Software Engineering and Computer Games
• 2005: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul

Fiction

• The Ware Tetralogy
  • 1982: Software
  • 1988: Wetware
  • 1997: Freeware
  • 2000: Realware

• Transrealist novels
  • 1980: White Light
  • 1981: Spacetime Donuts
  • 1983: The Sex Sphere
  • 1985: The Secret of Life
  • 1994: The Hacker and the Ants
  • 1999: Saucer Wisdom (novel marketed as non-fiction)
  • 2003: The Hacker and the Ants (Revised 'Version 2.0')

• Other Novels
  • 1984: Master of Space and Time
  • 1990: The Hollow Earth
  • 2002: Spaceland
  • 2002: As Above, So Below: A Novel of Pieter Brueghel
  • 2004: Frek and the Elixir
  • 2006: Mathematicians in Love
  • 2007: Postsingular
  • 2009: Hylozoic

• Story collections
  • 1983: The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka
  • 1991: Transreal! (also includes some non-fiction essays)
  • 2000: Gnarl! (complete short stories)
  • 2006: Mad Professor