As a teen, Brent enjoyed working for his father, who employed him to install thousands of feet of trenching and piping from waterwells to and within two fifty-acre fields with sprinkler systems. He also assisted in the operation of the sprinkler systems, as well as operation and maintenance of construction and farm and construction equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes, plows, wellhead engines and pumps.

As a student and young man, he experienced more satisfaction studying math, chemistry, thermodynamics, and physics than social studies and history. Math and science gave him the satisfaction of insight into the quantitative cause-effect relations that describe the physics and chemistry of nature.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering and worked professionally in the power generation industry on design, construction, start-up, and operation on coal-fired, geothermal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants in the United States.

Through his inherent interest in the mathematics and geometry of nature, he delightfully encountered the “Flower of Life”, appreciating the pattern extended from the vesica piscis and “Seed of Life” from which the familiar flower of life image is derived. Then, he discovered that unit (r=1) circles comprising the greater (extended) flower of life pattern have an amazing characteristic, whereby the center – to – center distances between all its circles are always square roots of whole numbers.

Additionally, he concludes the vesica piscis may not be, but perhaps should be more generally appreciated in relation to the reference (4) to the Bible’s book of John, the architecture of the Gothic Pointed Arch”, and the artistic/religious images that sometimes occur within and around a vesica piscis.

So, Mr. Crowder might be characterized as a “sacred geometry” enthusiast, noting along with others, that a unit radius circle can also serve as a means to graphically obtain the golden ratio (as described in Figure 3 of Ref. 8) and then to a scaled version of the Great Pyramid (Khufu) of Giza, further linking the unit circle and a vesica piscis to a grander geometrically and spiritually connected architecture.

He hopes this book and its connections will inspire others to recognize, appreciate and explore relations of number, geometry, architecture and spirituality.