Dana Walter Nance Mackenzie, an American mathematician, science writer, chess national master and USCF life master (LM) [1], two-time former champion of North Carolina [2], chess lecturer, and chess blogger. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983 under advisor Frederick Justin Almgren Jr. [3], and was math professor for thirteen years before becoming a full-time science writer [4]. Dana Mackenzie has authored and co-authored several volumes of What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences [5], an ongoing series published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Dana Mackenzie [6]

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

• 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 ^[9]

References

1. ^ LM Dana Mackenzie - ChessLecture
2. ^ Chess - Dana Mackenzie
3. ^ Dana Mackenzie - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ^ Dana Mackenzie (2012). The Universe in Zero Words. Princeton University Press
5. ^ AMS :: Whats Happening in the Mathematical Sciences
6. ^ Chess - Dana Mackenzie, Photo by Bill Lovejoy for the Santa Cruz Sentinel
7. ^ Dana Mackenzie – Hachette Book Group
8. ^ Giant-impact hypothesis from Wikipedia
9. ^ Article:"How Alpha Zero Sees/Wins" by AA Ross, CCC, January 17, 2018

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