John Derbyshire

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

Derbyshire studied mathematics at University College London with a bachelor's degree in 1966. He worked as a teacher and in 1969 programmer, such for financial firms in New York, but took on a life of wandering that took him to China. In 1980, he earned a diploma in Chinese in London and lived in England and China. Mostly, he taught, he was partially programmers. 1985 to 1999 he worked for First Boston Bank ( Credit Suisse First Boston) as a systems programmer (some freelancing on contract basis) and was then a writer.

He wrote a column for National Review and for various magazines such as New English Review, The New Criterion, The American Conservative, and The Washington Times. Due to a racist article against African Americans in Taki 's Magazine ( The Talk: Nonblack version, April 2012 ) he was discharged as a columnist for National Review. He called for stricter immigration rules in the United States. His conservative beliefs he put in the book We are doomed dar.

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

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

Writings

  • 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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