Rudolf von Bitter Rucker was born on March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The philosopher G. W. F. Hegel was his great-great-great-grandfather. Rudy Rucker is famous as a novel and essay writer. Among his most famous novels there are the ones that form the “ware” tetralogy. Among his essays there are “Infinity and the Mind” (1982) and “The Fourth Dimension. A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes” (1984).