by Dana Mackenzie | Dec 14, 2012 | Articles
Today I had an article published that was a little bit out of the ordinary, or perhaps way out of the ordinary for me. It’s called The Departed Queen, and it was posted on a website called Story Collider. It’s about the best chess game of my life, along...
by Dana Mackenzie | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Joint Mathematics Meetings (the “largest mathematics meeting in the world,” according to the website) are coming to San Diego in January! I will appear in two events at the meeting: On Friday, January 11, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm, I will sign copies of The...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
To my Goodreads friends, my Facebook friends, and anyone else who might read this: The Facebook page for my book, The Universe in Zero Words, has now gotten 25 “likes,” which means it is 83 percent of the way to 30 “likes.” If I reach that...
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...