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WHAT DOES MATH HAVE TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?
A lot! Check out my booklet called "Mathematics of Climate Change," based
on a conference held at MSRI in April 2007.
The PDF file is
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If you're on the tenure
track, or might be someday, don't miss "The Tenure Chase
Papers," the saga of my two-year quest for tenure at a
liberal-arts college. It appears as Chapter 7 in
Starting Our Careers, edited by Curtis Bennett and
Annalisa Crannell (Amer. Math. Soc., 1999). You can also
read it here. |
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The editors of
Science
chose Grisha Perelman's proof of the Poincaré Conjecture
as the
top science breakthrough of 2006. They asked me
to write the cover article about Perelman's work. I was
also involved in the design of the cover, which
illustrates (from top to bottom) the evolution of a
surface by Ricci flow, a key ingredient in Perelman's
proof. |
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Most people have
heard about the debate over voting machines in America.
But even more fundamental questions surround the
plurality vote, seemingly ingrained in our political
system. Does a plurality really reflects the will of the
electorate? Are there feasible alternatives? Read my
article in the
Swarthmore Alumni Bulletin (Sept.
2004) for some eye-opening answers. |
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Last
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April 8, 2008 |
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Copyright Notice
All text on this website is © Dana
Mackenzie.
Image copyrights may belong to other
people or organizations. Contact me for further
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In
my free time, I am an avid chess player. I was North
Carolina champion in 1985 and 1987, and earned the USCF
National Master title in 1988. I also have a lifetime
score of 1-0 against world champions! (The win came
against Belle, the world computer champion, in 1983.)
Click here to go to my chess web page. Also, please
visit
www.chesslecture.com, where I
give regular video lessons. You can preview one of the
lessons by clicking
this link. |
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