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
editJason 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
editRosenhouse 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
editIn 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
editPeer-reviewed papers
edit- 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. S2CID 15630311.
- Rosenhouse, J. (2002). "Probability, Optimization Theory, and Evolution". Evolution. 56 (8): 1721–1723. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056[1721:POTAE]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85618870.
- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b Jason Rosenhouse Curriculum Vitae
- ^ "EvolutionBlog - Science, Religion, Math, Politics and Chess". Scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
- ^ jrosenhouse on July 9, 2013 (2013-07-09). "Creationists Loves Them Some Thermodynamics! – EvolutionBlog". Scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ jrosenhouse on October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18). "Farewell to EvolutionBlog! - EvolutionBlog". Scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Rosenhouse, Jason. "Jason Rosenhouse Archives". The Panda's Thumb Blog. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ^ Rosenhouse, Jason (30 August 2012). "Faith in the Higgs?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ https://chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=2039818[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Rosenhouse, Jason".
- ^ Isoperimetric numbers of certain Cayley graphs associated to PSL
- ^ Rosenhouse, Jason (21 March 2012). "What One Atheist Learned From Hanging Out With Creationists". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Edis, Taner (September–October 2012). "Among the Creationists". Reports of the National Center for Science Education. 32 (5): 4.1–4.3. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Devlin, Keith (January 28, 2012), "The Numbers Game", The Wall Street Journal
- ^ Hunacek, Mark (January 10, 2012), "Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math behind the World's Most Popular Pencil Puzzle", MAA Reviews.
- ^ Rosenhouse, Jason (24 November 2020), Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691174075, retrieved March 18, 2022