John Derbyshire (writer)

John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945 in Northampton ) is a British-American mathematician, journalist and writer.

John Derbyshire (2003)

Life

Derbyshire studied mathematics at University College London with a bachelor's degree in 1966. He worked as a teacher and became a programmer in 1969. a. for financial firms in New York, but also took up a wandering life that also took him to China. In 1980 he graduated in Chinese from London and lived in England and China. Partly he taught, partly he was a programmer. From 1985 to 1999 he worked for the First Boston Bank (Credit Suisse First Boston) as a system programmer (partly freelance on a contract basis) and was then a writer.

He wrote a column for National Review and for various journals including New English Review , The New Criterion , The American Conservative, and The Washington Times . He was dismissed as a National Review columnist because of an anti-African American article in Taki's Magazine (The Talk: Nonblack Version, April 2012) criticized as being racist . He spoke out in favor of stricter immigration rules in the United States. He also expressed his conservative beliefs in the book We are doomed .

He is known for a popular science book on the Riemann Hypothesis ( Prime Obsession ), which won the Euler Book Prize .

Derbyshire is married to a Chinese woman and has a daughter and a son. He lives in Huntington, New York .

Fonts

• Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, St. Martin's Griffin, 1997, ISBN 0-312-15649-9 (novel)
• Fire From the Sun, Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ISBN 0-7388-4721-6
• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, Plume Books, 2003, ISBN 0-452-28525-9
• Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra, Joseph Henry Press, 2006, ISBN 0-309-09657-X
• We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, Crown Forum, 2009, ISBN 0-307-40958-9 , ISBN 978-0-307-40958-4

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