This book is dedicated to three genius scientists Rafael Bombelli (1526 - 1572), Hermann Minkowski (1864 - 1909), and Samuel Warren Carey (1911 - 2002). All of them had brilliant and breakthrough ideas in their scientific fields, ideas which were---and still are---well ahead of accepted views. Yet they passed away without being properly understood and, consequently, without their work being developed by the rest of the scientific community. Had they...