Our lecturer LM Dana Mackenzie was featured recently in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. You know Mackenzie as a brilliant chess master and educator, he is also an amazing award-winning math journalist. He’s written two books, most recently The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told Through Equations and before that, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be. In addition, he is also a freelance writer for Scientific American and similar publications. Dana is also an active blogger, you can read his chess blog here at Dana Blogs Chess. You’ll have to read the article to learn about how he spends his downtime – read it here: dana-mackenzie-santa-cruz-county-stories-chess-champion.
