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Jason Rosenhouse received
his PhD in mathematics
from Dartmouth College in 2000.
He subsequently spent three years as a post-doc at
Kansas State University.
Observing the machinations of the Kansas Board of Education
led to his unhealthy obsession with issues related
to evolution and creationism.
Currently he is an Associate Professor of
Mathematics at James Madison University,
in Harrisonburg, VA.
April 28, 2010
Category: Chess
Two more games down in the big chess match. Game Three saw the first draw of the match. Topalov once more opened with his queen pawn, but Anand wisely avoided the Grunfeld this time. Instead he played the super-solid Slav...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:23 PM • 2 Comments •
April 27, 2010
Category: Evolution
If for some incomprehensible reason you are not interested in the big chess match, and are looking for something evolutiony to read, let me suggest Jerry Coyne's big review of the recent books by RIchard Dawkins and Jerry Fodor and...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:03 PM • 5 Comments •
April 26, 2010
Category: Chess
Two games down in the big chess match and it is shaping up to be a barn burner. The defending champion is Viswanathan Anand of India, though you would never have guessed it from the faceplant he did in Game...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:14 PM • 5 Comments •
April 22, 2010
Category: Chess
Are you as excited as I am?...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:52 PM • 6 Comments •
April 15, 2010
Category: Mathematics
I learned something new the other day while preparing for my History of Math class. And since I have not done a math post in a while, I thought I would tell you about it. Specifically, I learned a new,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 8:54 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Religion
Massimo Pigliucci thinks Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins have naive views about science and the supernatural: My problem with Dawkins and Coyne is different, but stems from the same root: their position on morality is indeed distinct from Harris' (at...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:21 AM • 85 Comments •
April 9, 2010
Category: Mathematics
This time from the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society. The reviewer is Paulo Ventura Araujo, a mathematician at the University of Porto in Portugal. Interestingly, he notes at the start of the review that he had never heard of...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:50 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Chess
I am afraid I have been so lax in keeping up with my internet reading that I only just found out that Vassily Smyslov has died. Smyslov was the World Chess Champion from 1957-1958. His rivalry with Mikhail Botvinnik throughout...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 1:21 PM • 1 Comments •
April 8, 2010
Category: Religion
Peter Hess, Faith Project Director for the National Center for Science Education, argues that it is. He makes his case in this paper in the University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy I learned of the article...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:30 PM • 67 Comments •
April 7, 2010
Category: Mathematics
Which is to say that the Big Monty Hall Book got a (mostly) favorable review from the London Mathematical Society. The reviewer was David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge. I should admit that I don't generally use...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:52 PM • 10 Comments •
