by Dana Mackenzie | Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Let me start by saying that I don’t believe there is any such thing as a bad review. Any reader’s perspective, assuming he or she has actually read the book, is a valid one that an author should consider. However, I do feel as if I’ve been a little...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last week I learned about a cool social website for book-lovers, called Goodreads. If you join the site, you can submit reviews and evaluations of books that you have read. You can also network with friends and find out what books they are reading. Think Facebook but...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jul 12, 2012 | Books, Mathematics
In 2010 I was invited to write a glossy brochure for a committee of the National Academy of Sciences called “Mathematics in the Year 2025.” The committee was charged with making recommendations for government support of mathematics over the next decade or...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jul 1, 2012 | Books, Events, Santa Cruz
I have some exciting news to pass along about Capitola Book Cafe’s “Survive & Thrive” campaign. As I wrote earlier, they were trying to raise $285,000 by June 30 in order to keep their for-profit business going and also to start a non-profit...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jun 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today an interview with me was posted at “The Browser,” a British website devoted mostly to book reviews. Before I talk about the interview, let me just say how much I love their concept. The centerpiece of the website is called “Five Books,” a...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jun 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Christian Robert has published a review of The Universe in Zero Words on his blog, Xi’an’s Og. A version of this review will also appear in Chance, published by the American Statistical Association. I’ve been curious to see how my book will be...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jun 1, 2012 | Events, Santa Cruz
One of Santa Cruz County’s independent booksellers, the Capitola Book Café, has just launched a fund-raising campaign called Survive & Thrive. Not to put too fine a point on it, they are in danger of going out of business. That’s the...
by Dana Mackenzie | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
This week the British book-review website Popular Science (not to be confused with the American magazine Popular Science) published an interview with me. The format consisted of four questions sent by e-mail, and I was allowed to make the answers as long or as short...
by Dana Mackenzie | May 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’d like to announce the publication of the SIAM Report on Mathematics in Industry, which is available online as a PDF from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). As an official report of SIAM, the document is anonymous. However, I can tell...
by Dana Mackenzie | May 21, 2012 | Events, Mathematics, Moon
Eclipses, such as the partial (annular) solar eclipse that was seen in the western U.S. yesterday, are one of my favorite opportunities for participatory science. It’s commonly said that to watch a solar eclipse, you need to look at the image of the sun through...
