Keith Devlin
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Keith Devlin is an English mathematician and writer. He currently is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and a Consulting Professor of mathematics at Stanford.
In addition, he is a commentator on National Public Radio, where he is known as "The Math Guy."
As of 2004, he is the author of 24 books. Several of his books are aimed at an audience of the general public, as opposed to much academic work.
List of books (partial)
- The Millennium Problems: the Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time
- The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
- The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
- Logic and Information
- Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
External link
- Devlin's website at Stanford (http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~devlin/)
- http://www.literati.net/Devlin/