Jean-Michel Smith

Jean-Michel Smith

Growing up in the American Midwest, my addiction to travel began with a summer job planting pineapples in Hawaii. I widened my travels while studying engineering at the University of Illinois, spending a semester in Salzburg, Austria, where I learned to speak German. Later I was in Germany for two semesters as part in an exchange program with the Technische Hoschschule Darmstadt. I also had the good fortune of working several summers for Bayer Leverkusen as a Werkstudent (summer intern), further honing my language and IT skills. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science I attended graduate school and went on to work in the financial industry, designing and setting up trading systems in various places around the world. For many years I worked for a prop trading firm in Chicago, during which time I started my first novel and met my beautiful wife, author Christine Todd. Our journey has since taken us to various places around the world, most recently London and now New York, rewarding us with a rich diversity of experience and adventure.

S³: The Smith Sexagesimal System, is PUBLISHED.

S³: The Smith Sexagesimal System is a detailed treatment and modernization of the ancient base-60 numerical system first developed by the Sumerians around 3100 BC. S³ combines ancient and modern mathematical concepts, unifying them with quantum physics and general relativity. The result is an innovative new system that enhances arithmetic intelligence and simplifies difficult physics concepts.

Purchase here ($7.99) Paperback, 72 pages.

eBook: Nook, Kindle ($3.99), iBook coming soon.

My novel Autonomy will be available spring 2012.

“Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people — human beings — to share fundamental, natural rights with soulless creatures of government. Worse still, while corporations and human beings share many of the same rights under the law, they clearly are not bound equally to the same codes of good conduct, decency and morality, and they are not held equally accountable for their sins. Indeed, it is truly ironic that the death penalty and hell are reserved only to natural persons.”