Jonathan Bowers

Jonathan Bowers (also called Hedrondude or Jabe, born November 27, 1969 in Tyler, Texas) is an American amateur mathematician, considered "the father of modern googology." He introduced Array Notation to the public in 2002, a simple function that produces provably larger numbers than Knuth arrows, Steinhaus polygons, or chained arrows. Years later, with help from Chris Bird and John Spencer, Bowers developed a generalization called BEAF, which competes with many of the larger functions in the fast-growing hierarchy.

Bowers has coined many colorful names for numbers that he has defined, such as dossol and trongulus. His largest number, and by far his most famous, is meameamealokkapoowa oompa.

Outside of large number studies, he is best known for his work with s, higher dimensional analogies of polyhedra. He reportedly began his search for uniform polychora (4-dimensional polytopes) in the 1990s, independently discovering many of the currently known uniform polychora and coining names for them.

Bowers has coined a total of 340 googologisms as of April 2013.