I'd like to meet:
Anyone who has solved the cubic version of the above problem. Really, anyone nice.
Books:
If I had time to read, oh, I don't know, say "Finnegans Wake," "Ulysses," Gravity's Rainbow," and perhaps "Infinite Jest."
Oh, and can't forget, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" or "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda.
Heroes:
That's easy, my older sister (though younger looking). Math geniuses like Archimedes, Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, and other mathematicians past their prime - age 35. Last, but most important, Paramahansa Yogananda. The man who will take you to the infinite on the royal highway of meditaiton! I thank my sis again for introducing me to this book!