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Peter F. Erickson graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University. In 1975, he wrote Introduction To The Tripartite System. Therein, a new monetary system was proposed, one designed to obviate the eventual doom of the U.S. dollar In 1997, there came forth The Stance of Atlas, a critical review of Ayn Rand's philosophy, especially of her epistemology. The first paper on the veritable number system was copyrighted and distributed in 1999. Passport To Poverty: The 90's Stock Market And What It can Still Do To You appeared in 2003. In 2006, the first form of the present work, titled Absolute Space, Absolute Time, and Absolute Motion, was published. In 2011, came The Nature of Negative Numbers.
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