Brian Hayes (scientist)

{{short description|American scientist, columnist and author (born 1949)}}

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Brian Hayes (born 10 December 1949{{Cite web|title=My First 1000000 Years {{!}} bit-player|url=http://bit-player.org/2013/my-first-1000000-years|access-date=2020-08-25|language=en-US}}) is an American scientist, columnist and author.

Hayes is a senior writer and regular columnist for the magazine American Scientist, and was editor in chief for the magazine from 1990 to 1992. He has also edited and written columns for Scientific American, as well as writing for Computer Language and The Sciences.{{citation|title=Brian Hayes: Biography|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/brian-hayes|publisher=American Scientist}}. He won a National Magazine Award for his essay "Clock of Ages" in 2000.{{Cite web|url=http://www.magazine.org/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists|title=Winners and Finalists Database {{!}} ASME|website=www.magazine.org|access-date=2017-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010181823/http://magazine.org/asme/national-magazine-awards/winners-finalists|archive-date=2018-10-10|url-status=dead}}

Hayes is the author of three books:

• Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (W. W. Norton, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-393-32959-9}}; revised and updated edition: W.W. Norton, 2014, {{ISBN|978-0393349832}}).{{citation|title=Brian Hayes’ Infrastructure offers a tour of the "unnatural" side of America|journal=Grist|url=http://www.grist.org/article/infrastructure1/|first=Jim|last=Rossi|date=October 25, 2005}}.{{citation|title=Industrial structures|journal=Architectural Science Review|date=September 1, 2006}}.
• Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang, 2008; Macmillan, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-8090-5217-2}}).{{citation|title=Let them eat pi: Group Theory in the Bedroom And Other Mathematical Diversions|journal=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-11-bk-lippincott11-story.html|first=Sara|last=Lippincott|date=May 11, 2008}}.{{citation|title=How things add up|first=Mark|last=Athitakis|journal=Star Tribune|date=April 11, 2008|url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/17492674.html}}.
• Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations (MIT Press, 2017, {{ISBN|9780262036863}}