by Dana Mackenzie | Jan 22, 2014 | Books, Moon
Today I’d like to tell you the behind-the-scenes story of my first book, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, which celebrated its tenth year in print a few months ago. As you’ll read below, The Big Splat has sort of been “put out to...
by Dana Mackenzie | May 20, 2013 | Books, Events, Mathematics
Time for another Goodreads giveaway! From Tuesday, May 21 through Friday, June 7, you can go to www.goodreads.com and enter to win a free copy of my latest book, What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences. I’m offering three free copies. Last summer I...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 21, 2012 | Books, Events, Mathematics
Today I had the privilege of being interviewed for a science podcast called Strongly Connected Components, moderated by Samuel Hansen. “Strongly Connected Components” focuses mostly on mathematics (in fact, the name is a mathematical term), and a typical...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 19, 2012 | Books, Mathematics
In my last post I forgot to address the second part of the title of the post. I have news! I found out today that the U.S. co-publisher and the U.K co-publisher have reached an agreement on electronic rights and that there will be an e-book version of The Universe in...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 19, 2012 | Articles, Books, Mathematics
A new review of The Universe in Zero Words has been posted on The Math Less Traveled, a blog by Brent Yorgey. I love it when I see a review that is completely, 100 percent positive, because then I don’t have to reply to anything, I can just tell you to go read...
by Dana Mackenzie | Oct 25, 2012 | Articles, Books, Mathematics
The latest review of The Universe in Zero Words has just come out at The Guardian‘s website, on a blog written by GrrlScientist. Here’s the link! Here are a couple of encouraging comments from The Grrl herself: Comprised of short lively vignettes that are...
