Keith J. Devlin

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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 2...more

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avg rating: 3.57 | 227 ratings | 58 reviews | 20 distinct works

	The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.52 — 40 ratings — published 2000 5 editions	my rating:
	The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.58 — 36 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	The Millennium Problems by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.29 — 38 ratings — published 2002 5 editions	my rating:
	The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published 2005 3 editions	my rating:
	The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published 1998 3 editions	my rating:
	The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.30 — 20 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Mathematics: The Science of Patterns by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 1994 3 editions	my rating:
	Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1988 6 editions	my rating:
	Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 1997 2 editions	my rating:
	Life by the Numbers by Keith J. Devlin avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1998 2 editions	my rating: