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Keith Devlin

Author · 19 books

Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of the university's H-STAR institute, a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition. He has written 26 books and over 80 published research articles. Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.

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Books

By Mathematics Teacher Paul Lockhart - A Mathematician's Lament

2009

Finding Fibonacci

The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

2017

Goodbye, Descartes

The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

1997

Infosense

Turning Information Into Knowledge

1999

Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

2012

Leonardo and Steve

The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years

2011

Life by the Numbers

1998

Logic and Information (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science

1991

Mathematics

The New Golden Age

1988

Mathematics

The Science of Patterns

1994

Mathematics Education for a New Era

Video Games as a Medium for Learning

2011

Sets, Functions, and Logic

An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition

1981

The Joy of Sets

Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory

1993

The Language of Mathematics

Making the Invisible Visible

1998

The Man of Numbers

Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution

2011

The Math Gene

How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

2000

The Math Instinct

Why You're a Mathematical Genius

2005

The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS

Solving Crime with Mathematics

2007

The Unfinished Game

Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

2008