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Dana Walter Nance Mackenzie, an American mathematician, science writer, chess national master and USCF life master (LM), two-time former champion of North Carolina , chess lecturer, and chess blogger. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983 under advisor Frederick Justin Almgren Jr., and was math professor for thirteen years before becoming a full-time science writer. Dana Mackenzie has authored and co-authored several volumes of What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, an ongoing series published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

=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
 * 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=
 * Dana Mackenzie
 * Dana Mackenzie - The Mathematics Genealogy Project

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
 * Last Computer Game for 2019 by Dana Mackenzie, July 01, 2019 » Shredder

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