Keith Devlin
Keith J. Devlin | |
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St. Mary's College of California | |
Doctoral advisor | Frederick Rowbottom |
Keith James Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship.[3]
Biography
He was born and grew up in England, in Kingston upon Hull. There he attended a local primary school followed by Greatfield High School in Hull. In the last school year he was appointed head boy. Devlin earned a BSc (special) in mathematics at King's College London in 1968, and a PhD in mathematics at the University of Bristol in 1971 under the supervision of Frederick Rowbottom.[3][5]
Career
Later he got a position as a scientific assistant in mathematics at the
He is co-founder and executive director of
His current research is mainly focused on the use of different media to teach mathematics to different audiences. He is also co-founder and president of the company BrainQuake, which creates mathematics learning video games, which he set up in 2011.[7] Other topics of his research are the theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition.[8]
As of 2012 he had authored 34 books and over 80 research articles.[3] Several of his books are aimed at a general audience.
Awards
- Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award, 2001[3]
- In 2007 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[9]
- 2004 International Pythagoras Prize in Mathematics, in the category Best Expository Text in the Mathematical Sciences for the Italian translation of The Millennium Problems[10]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[11]
Bibliography
- Articles
- Devlin, Keith I.; MR 0480036 [First proof of Jensen's covering theorem; Keith J. Devlin is credited as Keith I. Devlin in the paper.]
- Books
- Constructibility. Springer. 1984. ISBN 3-540-13258-9.
- Logic and Information. Cambridge University Press. 1991. ISBN 0-521-49971-2.
- The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory. Springer. 1993. ISBN 0-387-94094-4.
- Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Holt Paperbacks. 1996. ISBN 0-8050-7344-2.
- Goodbye, Descartes: the End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997. ISBN 0-471-25186-0.
- The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible. Holt Paperbacks. 1998. ISBN 0-8050-7254-3.
- Mathematics: The New Golden Age. Columbia University Press. 1999. ISBN 0-231-11639-X.
- Life by the Numbers. Wiley. 1999. ISBN 0471328227.
- The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip. Basic Books. 2000. ISBN 0-465-01619-7.
- The Millennium Problems: the Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time. Basic Books. 2002. ISBN 0-465-01730-4.
- The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs). Thunder's Mouth Press. 2006. ISBN 1-56025-839-X.
- The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics. Plume. 2007. ISBN 978-0-452-28857-7. with coauthor Gary Lorden
- The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern. Basic Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-465-00910-7.
- The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution. Walker Publishing Co. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8027-7812-3.
- Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning. A K Peters. 2011. ISBN 978-1-56881-431-5.
- Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. Keith Devlin (18 July 2012). 2012. ISBN 978-0615653631.
References
- ^ Author information from Library of Congress authorities. Lccn.loc.gov
- ^ "British Library Item details". Primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Curriculum vitae, Profkeithdevlin.com, accessed 3 February 2014.
- ^ Author information from German National Library catalogue Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Keith Devlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Archive of The Math Guy series from NPR's Weekend Edition accessed 9 November 2007
- ^ "Brainquake". Brainquake.com. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ "Keith Devlin". 7 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ "Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
- ^ "Honors & Awards". News-service.stanford.edu. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.
External links
- Official website including his curriculum vitae
- Devlin's Angle — column at the Mathematical Association of America