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...