Shrub Oak is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place located in the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Shrub Oak had a population of 2
Stone bridge over the Taconic State Parkway near Shrub Oak
Clifford Alan Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity. For many years, he was employed at the IBM Thoma
Shrub Oak, New York
…Oak census-designated place is in the Lakeland Central School District, while a small portion is in the Yorktown Central School District. The writer Clifford A. Pickover has used Shrub Oak as a backdrop in several of his books, including Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves, "Liquid Earth (Neoreality Series)" and A Beginner's…
In the 1990s, Pickover created virtual caverns from extremely simple numerical simulations that reminded him of the Lechuguilla Cave, pictured here.
Visualization of chaotic attractor. Pickover's earliest books often focused on patterns that characterize mathematics such as fractals, chaos, and number theory. Computer graphics, reminiscent of this chaotic attractor, were common in his early works.
Forest troll. (Theodor Kittelsen, 1906). Some of Pickover's later books often discussed "science at the edges," including such topics as parallel universes, quantum immortality, alien life, and elf-like beings seen by some people who use dimethyltryptamine.