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The man behind vortex math

Who is Marko Rodin?

Creator of vortex math and the Rodin coil

Marko Rodin is an American independent researcher who created vortex based mathematics and the toroidal winding known as the Rodin coil. Raised in the Bahá’í Faith, he says it all began when he turned the word Abhá, part of a Bahá’í name of God, into numbers and got 9. He has presented his system at alternative science conferences since at least 1990 and co-wrote one paper on it in 2010. His claims of free energy and medical uses have never been tested in a controlled study.

Letters into numbersAbhá

Total

Abjad values from the standard table: alif 1, bāʾ 2, hāʾ 5, yāʾ 10.

His story, as he tells it

From a name of God to a torus

According to the Natural Philosophy Wiki, which hosts a friendly page on him, Rodin was “raised in the Bahá’í Faith” and set out to find “the precise mystical significance of the Most Great Name of God.” He converted its superlative form, Abhá, into numbers with the Abjad system, where each Arabic letter has a value, and counted A = 1, b = 2, h = 5, á = 1, for a total of 9.

In his own words, from a 2026 listing for one of his video classes: “By decrypting the Most Great Name of God found in the Baha’i Faith sacred scriptures, I was able to create the toroid number map.” That map, a grid of digit sums wrapped onto a donut shape, is the basis of vortex math and of the Rodin coil.

Two things are worth knowing. Spelled the usual way in Arabic, Abhá ends in a letter worth 10, which makes 18 rather than 9; Rodin’s 9 depends on counting that letter as 1. And in Bahá’í tradition the number 9 comes from a different word, Bahá, meaning glory. The Faith itself warns against numerology: Shoghi Effendi wrote that “the friends should avoid the use of any system of numerology in connection with the Bahá’í teachings.” Vortex math has no standing in the religion.

The Natural Philosophy Wiki also says Rodin taught in schools in Hawaiʻi, developing mathematics curriculum material, and lists his residence as Indian Wells, California.

Timeline

Marko Rodin, year by year

1990
Speaks at the Global Sciences Congress, the earliest talk on record. He speaks there again in February 1993.Natural Philosophy Wiki
1993
Speaks at the United States Psychotronics Association conference. The USPA’s own page gives the year as 1994.Natural Philosophy Wiki, USPA
1995
By now his book Aerodynamicsss, The Dandelion Puff Principle exists: Bill Ramsay winds test coils from it. Ramsay calls his results non-definitive.Natural Philosophy Wiki
2009
First of several talks at the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference, run by TeslaTech. He returns through 2013 and again in 2022.Natural Philosophy Wiki
2010
Presents “The Rodin Number Map and Rodin Coil,” written with Greg Volk, at the Natural Philosophy Alliance conference in Long Beach. It is his main written account, and it says no controlled studies of the coil had been published.Proceedings of the NPA
2010
His follower Randy Powell gives a TEDxCharlotte talk on vortex based math and the Rodin coil. It is the talk most people remember, often as Rodin’s own.Oscillatory Thoughts, TED statement
2012
TED removes Powell’s talk from its official channel, saying it “came under criticism for its lack of scientific validity.” The same year the mathematician Mark Chu-Carroll calls vortex math numeric pareidolia.Oscillatory Thoughts, Good Math
2025
A hardcover titled Marko Rodin’s Vortex Based Mathematics, edited by Karen Elkins, is listed for sale.Barnes & Noble listing
2026
Still teaching: the USPA sells a video masterclass, “The Doughnut Universe and the Kingdom of Nines.”USPA

What he claims

The promises, and the evidence

Rodin’s claims go far beyond arithmetic. Text credited to his website says the math “shows the dimensional shape and function of the universe as being a toroid or donut-shaped black hole,” that antennas based on it are used by the U.S. government to “protect the four corners of the continental U.S.,” that medical devices based on the Rodin coil “are being manufactured and used in the treatment of cancer patients,” and that it promises “an inexhaustible, nonpolluting energy source.” RationalWiki lists further promises from his organization: an end to all disease, unlimited food, travel anywhere in the universe.

None of these has independent support. The Natural Philosophy Wiki, despite its friendly tone, says “no independent corroboration of these claims has been found” for the government and corporate stories, and that “the energy and levitation claims remain unverified.” Rodin’s own 2010 paper says no controlled studies had been published. The arithmetic underneath is real but, as Is vortex math real? shows, it only works in base 10.

What we could not confirm

His birth year and full name. Whether he is alive: we found no obituary, and he was still selling classes in 2026, but that is not a confirmation. Any patent: Google Patents shows none under his name, which does not prove none exists. A TED talk by Rodin himself: the only one on record is Randy Powell’s.

Real vs legend

Marko Rodin, sorted

Claim	Status
Rodin created vortex based mathematics.	Real
It began with the Bahá’í word Abhá.	His account
Abhá adds up to 9 in Abjad.	Only his way · spelled, 18
He has spoken on it since at least 1990.	Real · NP Wiki
He gave a TED talk.	No · it was Powell
The U.S. government uses his antennas.	No corroboration
Rodin coil devices treat cancer.	No evidence
He worked from Tesla’s ideas.	No source