John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire was born on June 3rd, 1945 and is currently 81 years old. John Derbyshire was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Derbyshire attended University College London, University of London.
John Derbyshire is a political commentator and journalist. He was one of the last paleoconservatives at the
National Review until he got fired for writing an article for
Taki's Magazine, which was viewed as racist in 2012. That same year, he started writing for VDARE, a white nationalist site.
The article that got him fired featured John suggesting that East Asian and white parents should talk to their kids about the threats posed to their safety by black people. He also recommended that parents tell their kids not to live in predominantly black communities.
John went to the Northampton School for Boys and graduated from University College, London, of the University of London, where he studied mathematics. Before writing on a full time basis, he worked as a computer programmer on Wall Street.
John has also written for the
New English Review, with columns covering political-cultural topics like race, China, immigration, mathematics, and history.
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream was a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
He married Lynette Rose Derbyshire, a Chinese immigrant in 1986. They married in the city of Jilin, in Jilin province, northeast China, and they have a son and daughter.
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics is the definitive story about the Riemann Hypothesis, an epic and fascinating mathematical mystery that continues to challenge the world.
In 1859, a little-known 32-year-old mathematician named Bernhard Riemann made this hypothesis as he was presenting his paper to the Berlin Academy called
On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity. Today, after 150 years of research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hypothesis is still unsolved, with a $1 million prize having been earmarked for the first person that conquers it.
Alternating passages of extraordinarily lucid mathematical exposition with chapters of elegantly composed history and biography, this book is both a fluent and fascinating account of an epic mathematical mystery that continues to excite and challenge the world.
This book won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize.
The book is aimed at the curious and intelligent yet non-mathematical reader.
The book explores topics like field theory, the zeta function, complex numbers, the prime number theorem, the harmonic series, as well as others. It also gives relevant information about the lives of the mathematicians that worked in these areas like Gauss, Euler, Lejeune Dirichlet, Hadamard, Lobachevsky, Chebyshev, and Vallee-Poussin, along with Riemann himself.
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John Derbyshire: F.A.Q
When was John Derbyshire Born? How old is John Derbyshire?
John Derbyshire was born on June 3rd, 1945. John Derbyshire is currently 81 years old.
Where was John Derbyshire Born?
John Derbyshire was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England and is English.
What was the first book John Derbyshire wrote?
The first book written by John Derbyshire was Old Gold & Mining Towns of Australia, published in 1987.
What was the most recent book John Derbyshire wrote?
His most recently released work was From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2013 on January 22nd, 2015.
What is the most popular book by John Derbyshire?
Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular John Derbyshire book is
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. Here are his most popular books and their average ratings:
- Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (9.00)
- Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (8.00)
Are there upcoming new books by John Derbyshire?
John Derbyshire does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.
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How many books has John Derbyshire written?
John Derbyshire has written 10 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 2 Standalone Novels, 2 Collections, 5 Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Fire from the Sun Series.