Keith Devlin
Author · 17 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.
Series
Books
The Man of Numbers
Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
2011
Infosense
Turning Information Into Knowledge
1999
Sets, Functions, and Logic
An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition
1981
Mathematics
The Science of Patterns
1994
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
2012
Leonardo and Steve
The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years
2011
The Unfinished Game
Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
2008
The Joy of Sets
Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
1993
The Math Instinct
Why You're a Mathematical Genius
2005
Goodbye, Descartes
The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind
1997
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
Solving Crime with Mathematics
2007
The Math Gene
How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
2000
Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
2017
Life by the Numbers
1998
Mathematics
The New Golden Age
1988
The Language of Mathematics
Making the Invisible Visible
1998
Mathematics Education for a New Era
Video Games as a Medium for Learning
2011
