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David Alan Brooks
David Alan Brooks was born in South Africa, where he qualified as an Air Force pilot before gaining a BA degree in classics and law, followed by an honors degree with a dissertation on ancient technology. To his regret, despite credits in sundry subjects, he has none in mathematics. After completing a second postgraduate honors degree in business administration and personnel management, he served as the deputy director of a training centre before becoming a full-time inventor. He has been granted numerous international patents. After having lived for six years on a boat, he now lives in an old chapel on a Welsh island. Thanks largely to a share of the royalties earned from two automatic poolcleaners manufactured in California, he is able to spend his days dreaming up additional geometry-intensive configurations of his revolutionary concept for efficient ultra-high-speed rotary “PHASE” engines, writing definitions for the all-limerick web dictionary OEDILF, and feeding ducks on a sacred lake once revered by Druids—also keen geometers (and perhaps frustrated trisectors) until they were crushed by the Romans in 60 AD.