Jonathan Bowers

Jonathan Bowers (born November 27, 1969 in Tyler, Texas) is an amateur mathematician who specializes in multidimensional shapes and googology. He is also the inventor of Array Notation and BEAF.

Bowers is best known for his work with polytopes, higher dimensional analogies of polyhedra. He reportly began his search for uniform polychora (4-dimensional polytopes) as far back as 1990. He independently discovered many of the currently known uniform polychora and coined names for them.

Bowers introduced Array Notation to the public in 2002. Array Notation is significant in that it is demonstratably more powerful than Knuth arrows, Steinhaus polygons, or Chain arrows. This effectively makes it the most powerful computable function yet constructed to generate large numbers. Bowers has also coined many names for numbers that he defines with Array Notation.

He tries way too hard to think up names for numbers, and comes up with the stupidest things.