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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.
Category: Mathematics
The Big Sudoku Book has received another review, and in an unexpected venue: The Wall Street Journal! The review is by Keith Devlin, a mathematician at Stanford University and the author of a small library of books of his own....
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Well, the BSB (that's the Big Sudoku Book) has now received its first review. It comes from Ed Pegg Jr., who runs an excellent website about mathematical games and puzzles and is very well-known among those interested in recreational mathematics....
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:58 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
In honor of the publication of the BSB (that's the Big Sudoku Book, for those not up on the local slang), my coauthor, Laura, and I hosted a session at last week's Joint Mathematics Meetings about the mathematics of Sudoku....
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:27 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Tomorrow I will observe New Year's Day by hopping into the Jasonmobile and driving to my New Jersey office. Which is to say, I will be visiting my parents. Then on Tuesday I shall hop on a train and sally...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:34 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Time to show you the dramatic conclusion to the story I began yesterday. Our problem was to define the complex exponential function in a way that was consistent with everything we knew about real exponential functions. We noticed that one...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:55 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Euler's identity is the equation: \[ e^{i \pi} +1=0. \] If you have any taste for mathematics at all, it is hard not to smile at this. In one equation we have each of five “special” numbers (e, i, pi,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 9:42 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
The BSB (that's the big Sudoku book, for those not up on the local slang) is now available! It's both a math book and a puzzle book. As math book it contains a survey of some of the mathematical...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:13 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Later today I will hop into the Jasonmobile and sally forth to Richmond, VA, where I will be the guest speaker in the Discrete Math Seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University. I will be giving an edge-of-your-seat barn burner of a...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 12:57 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Here's Herman Cain, from an interview with Chris Wallace: Here is how we arrived at it. I had some of the best economists in this country help me to develop this plan. You know, my background is mathematics. It was...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 12:20 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: Mathematics
Here's Timothy Gowers, a Fields Medalist, from his book Mathematics: A Very Short Intorduction: However, there certainly are philosophers who take seriously the question of whether numbers exist, and this distinguishes them from mathematicians, who either find it obvious that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:35 PM • 50 Comments •
