| Keith DevlinAlso known as: K. Devlin, Keith Devlin, K. J. Devlin, Keith J. Devlin, Keith J.; Devlin, Keith Devlin | 1,132 | 14 |  (3.6) | 0 | 0 |
- The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles… 198 copies, 2 reviews
- The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like… 190 copies, 3 reviews
- Mathematics: The New Golden Age 125 copies, 1 review
- The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible 125 copies
- The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters,… 88 copies, 2 reviews
- Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind… 84 copies
- The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics 69 copies, 3 reviews
- Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of… 52 copies
- The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter… 40 copies, 2 reviews
- Logic and Information (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science) 40 copies
- Infosense: Turning Information Into Knowledge 31 copies
- The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (Undergraduate… 28 copies
- Life by the Numbers 27 copies
- Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third… 13 copies
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Keith Devlin has 3 past events. (show) Keith Devlin reads from The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern .
Village Books: KEITH DEVLIN, THE UNFINISHED GAME (October 8 at 19:00) Keith Devlin. In the early 17th century, mathematicians generally agreed that it was impossible to accurately and scientifically determine the likelihood of one event occurring rather than another. Everything from the result of a dice roll to the possibility of rain was consigned to the realm of pure, unknowable chance. ... (more)Village Books: KEITH DEVLIN, THE UNFINISHED GAME (October 8 at 19:00) Keith Devlin. In the early 17th century, mathematicians generally agreed that it was impossible to accurately and scientifically determine the likelihood of one event occurring rather than another. Everything from the result of a dice roll to the possibility of rain was consigned to the realm of pure, unknowable chance. ... (more)
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Dr. Keith Devlin is executive director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information and a consulting professor of mathematics at Stanford. Devlin has a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from King's College London (1968) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol (1971). He is a fellow fo the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a World Economic Forum fellow, and a former member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the U.S. National Academy fo Sciences. Devlin has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's popular Weekend Edition, where he is known as "the Math Guy" in his on-air conversations with host Scott Simon. His monthly column, "Devlin's Angle," appears on Mathematical Association of America's web journal MAA Online. [from The Numbers Behind Numb3ers (2007)]  | |
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