Keith Devlin

Keith J. Devlin ( born March 16, 1947 in Kingston upon Hull ) is a British mathematician and science writer.

He taught at various universities, including Germany and the USA. He is currently the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information and Advisory Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University.

Devlin is since 1983 a columnist for the Guardian newspaper. For the BBC, he produced successful programs on modern mathematics. He is also a commentator on National Public Radio, where he (the math - type ) is known as " The Math Guy ". By the year 2011, he published 31 books. In addition to his academic works are also drawn some popular science.

Since 2012 he holds free online courses on mathematical thinking on the learning platform Coursera. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Works

  • The Millennium problem: the Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time
  • The math gene: How mathematical thinking or developed Why you can forget about numbers quiet ( The Math Gene How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip. ), German Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3 -423-34008-8
  • The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
  • Logic and Information
  • Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
  • Great moments in modern mathematics
  • Life by the Numbers
  • Pascal, Fermat, and the calculation of happiness. A journey into the history of mathematics. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59099-3
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