Biography:Jason Rosenhouse

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Short description: American author and mathematician

Jason Rosenhouse is an American author and professor of mathematics at James Madison University, where he was originally appointed an assistant professor in 2003. He became a full professor in 2014. His research focuses on algebraic graph theory, as well as analytic number theory.[1] He ran the blog Evolution Blog at National Geographic's ScienceBlogs,[2] where he frequently criticized creationism.[3] In late 2016 he announced that he was abandoning the blogging format.[4] He has contributed to the pro-evolution blog The Panda's Thumb,[5] and has also contributed to the Huffington Post about topics such as the Higgs boson, in addition to creationism.[6]

Personal life

Jason grew up in New Jersey. While in middle school and high school, he was a prolific chess player, attending both tournaments and chess camp.[7][8]

Education

Rosenhouse has a bachelor's degree from Brown University in mathematics (1995), and an M.A. (1997) and PhD in mathematics (2000), both from Dartmouth College.[1] His PhD thesis was entitled "Isoperimetric numbers of certain Cayley graphs associated to PSL (2, [zeta subscript n])".[9]

Career

In 2000, Rosenhouse accepted a position at Kansas State University's mathematics department, at a time when the state school board was embroiled in a dispute over teaching creationism in schools. The school board's elimination of evolution from science textbooks introduced him to the creationist community, and he says that his time spent with them has convinced him that "the task of reconciling science with faith is far more difficult than is sometimes pretended."[10]

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed papers

  • Cochrane, T.; Pinner, C.; Rosenhouse, J. (2003). "BOUNDS ON EXPONENTIAL SUMS AND THE POLYNOMIAL WARING PROBLEM MOD p". Journal of the London Mathematical Society 67 (2): 319. doi:10.1112/S0024610702004040. 
  • Rosenhouse, J. (2002). "Probability, Optimization Theory, and Evolution". Evolution 56 (8): 1721–1723. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1721:POTAE2.0.CO;2]. 
  • Lanphier, D.; Rosenhouse, J. (2004). "Cheeger constants of Platonic graphs". Discrete Mathematics 277 (1–3): 101–113. doi:10.1016/S0012-365X(03)00178-X. 

Books

  • The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser, Oxford University Press[11]
  • Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line, Oxford University Press[12][13]
  • Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math Behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle, Oxford University Press[14][15]
  • Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles , Princeton University Press[16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jason Rosenhouse Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ "EvolutionBlog - Science, Religion, Math, Politics and Chess". Scienceblogs.com. http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/. 
  3. ↑ jrosenhouse on July 9, 2013 (2013-07-09). "Creationists Loves Them Some Thermodynamics! – EvolutionBlog". Scienceblogs.com. http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2013/07/09/creationists-loves-them-some-thermodynamics/. 
  4. ↑ jrosenhouse on October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18). "Farewell to EvolutionBlog! - EvolutionBlog". Scienceblogs.com. http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2016/10/18/farewell-to-evolutionblog/. 
  5. ↑ Rosenhouse, Jason. "Jason Rosenhouse Archives". The Panda's Thumb Blog. http://pandasthumb.org/archives/author/jason-rosenhouse/. 
  6. ↑ Rosenhouse, Jason (30 August 2012). "Faith in the Higgs?". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenhouse/faith-in-the-higgs_b_1828182.html. 
  7. ↑ https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=2039818
  8. ↑ "Rosenhouse, Jason". http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2039818. 
  9. ↑ Isoperimetric numbers of certain Cayley graphs associated to PSL
  10. ↑ Rosenhouse, Jason (21 March 2012). "What One Atheist Learned From Hanging Out With Creationists". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenhouse/atheist-learns-from-creationists_b_1343147.html. 
  11. ↑ Krámli, A. S. (2009). "Jason Rosenhouse, the Monty Hall Problem, the remarkable story of math's most contentious brain teaser, xii+194 pages, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009". Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 59 (2): 239. doi:10.1007/s10998-009-0239-z. 
  12. ↑ Edis, Taner (September–October 2012). "Among the Creationists". Reports of the National Center for Science Education 32 (5): 4.1–4.3. http://reports.ncse.com/index.php/rncse/article/view/120/198. Retrieved 2013-10-29. 
  13. ↑ Yong, A. (2013). "Among the Creationists: Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line. By Jason Rosenhouse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. Xiv + 257. $29.95". Religious Studies Review 39 (2): 76. doi:10.1111/rsr.12027_5. 
  14. ↑ Devlin, Keith (January 28, 2012), "The Numbers Game", The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204301404577173022950738492 
  15. ↑ Hunacek, Mark (January 10, 2012), "Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle", MAA Reviews, http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/taking-sudoku-seriously-the-math-behind-the-worlds-most-popular-pencil-puzzle .
  16. ↑ Rosenhouse, Jason (24 November 2020), Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691174075, https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174075/games-for-your-mind, retrieved March 18, 2022 



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