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Dana Mackenzie [1]
Dana Walter Nance Mackenzie,
an American mathematician, science writer, chess national master and USCF life master (LM) [2], two-time former champion of North Carolina [3], chess lecturer, and chess blogger. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983 under advisor Frederick Justin Almgren Jr. [4], and was math professor for thirteen years before becoming a full-time science writer [5]. Dana Mackenzie has authored and co-authored several volumes of What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences [6], an ongoing series published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Contents
Selected Publications
1983
- Dana Nance (1983). A Priori Integral Geometric Estimates for Non-Positively Curved Surfaces. Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, advisor Frederick Justin Almgren Jr.
2000 ...
- Dana Mackenzie (2003). The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be. Wiley [8]
- Dana Mackenzie, Barry Cipra (2006). What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 6. AMS
- Dana Mackenzie (2009). What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 7. AMS
2010 ...
- Dana Mackenzie (2011). What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 8. AMS
- Dana Mackenzie (2012). The Universe in Zero Words. Princeton University Press
- Dana Mackenzie (2013). What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 9. AMS, amazon
- Dana Mackenzie, Barry Cipra (2015). What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 10. AMS
- Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie (2018). The Book of Why. Basic Books
External Links
Chess
- The chess games of Dana N Mackenzie from chessgames.com
- Mackenzie, Dana N. FIDE Chess Profile
- Chess - Dana Mackenzie
- LM Dana Mackenzie - ChessLecture
- Dana Blogs Chess
Computer Chess
- Computer chess: Does it matter? by Dana Mackenzie, July 02, 2011 » Rybka Controversy
- First win against Shredder 12! by Dana Mackenzie, July 03, 2011 » Shredder
- My Games Against World Champions (Part 1) by Dana Mackenzie, April 24, 2012 » Belle
- One Small Step for Computers, One Giant Leap for Mankind by Dana Mackenzie, December 06, 2017 » AlphaZero
- How AlphaZero Wins by Dana Mackenzie, December 15, 2017 [9]
- Last Computer Game for 2019 by Dana Mackenzie, July 01, 2019 » Shredder
References
- ↑ Chess - Dana Mackenzie, Photo by Bill Lovejoy for the Santa Cruz Sentinel
- ↑ LM Dana Mackenzie - ChessLecture
- ↑ Chess - Dana Mackenzie
- ↑ Dana Mackenzie - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Dana Mackenzie (2012). The Universe in Zero Words. Princeton University Press
- ↑ AMS :: Whats Happening in the Mathematical Sciences
- ↑ Dana Mackenzie – Hachette Book Group
- ↑ Giant-impact hypothesis from Wikipedia
- ↑ Article:"How Alpha Zero Sees/Wins" by AA Ross, CCC, January 17, 2018
