Jason Rosenhouse is an American author and professor of mathematics atJames Madison University, where he was originally appointed an assistant professor in 2003. He became a full professor in 2014. His research focuses onalgebraic graph theory, as well asanalytic number theory.^[1] He ran theEvolution Blog atNational Geographic'sScienceBlogs,^[2] where he frequently criticizedcreationism.^[3] He has contributed to the pro-evolution blogThe Panda's Thumb,^[4] and has also contributed toHuffPost about topics such as theHiggs boson, in addition to creationism.^[5] In late 2016 he announced that he was abandoning the blogging format.^[6]

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]

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

In 2000, Rosenhouse accepted a position atKansas 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]

• 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.

• 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]

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