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Keith J. Devlin
Keith Devlin (2011)
Born	16 March 1947 (1947-03-16) (age74)[1] [2] Hull, England[3] [4]
Nationality	British and American
Alma mater	King's College London, University of Bristol
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Stanford University, King's College London, University of Bristol, University of Manchester, University of Aberdeen, University of Oslo, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Toronto, University of Lancaster, Colby College, St. Mary's College of California
Doctoral advisor	Frederick Rowbottom

Keith J. 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 [edit]

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 [edit]

Later he got a position as a Scientific Assistant in Mathematics at the University of Oslo, Norway from August till December 1972. In 1974 he became a Scientific Assistant in Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 1976 he was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, Canada. From 1977 till 1987 he served as a Lecturer, then Reader, in Mathematics at the University of Lancaster, England. From 1987 to 1989 he was a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University in California. From 1989 to 1993 he was the Carter Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Department at Colby College in Maine. From 1993 to 2000 he was Dean of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary's College of California. From 2001 until he retired in December 2018 he was a Senior Research Engineer at Stanford University.^[6]

He is co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (2006), a co-founder of Stanford Media X university-industry research partnership program, and a Senior Researcher in the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).^[3] He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy."^[7]

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 the company BrainQuake, which creates mathematics learning video games, which he set up in 2011.^[8] 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.^[9]

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 [edit]

• Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award, 2001^[3]
• In 2007 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.^[10]
• 2004 International Pythagoras Prize in Mathematics, in the category Best Expository Text in the Mathematical Sciences for the Italian translation of The Millennium Problems ^[11]
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012^[12]

Bibliography [edit]

Articles

• Devlin, Keith I.; Jensen, R. Björn (1975), "Marginalia to a theorem of Silver", ISILC Logic Conference (Proc. Internat. Summer Inst. and Logic Colloq., Kiel, 1974), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 499, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 115–142, doi:10.1007/BFb0079419, ISBN978-3-540-07534-9, 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. ISBN3-540-13258-9.
• Logic and Information . Cambridge University Press. 1991. ISBN0-521-49971-2.
• The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory. Springer. 1993. ISBN0-387-94094-4.
• Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. Holt Paperbacks. 1996. ISBN0-8050-7344-2.
• Goodbye, Descartes: the End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind . John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997. ISBN0-471-25186-0.
• The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible. Holt Paperbacks. 1998. ISBN0-8050-7254-3.
• Mathematics: The New Golden Age. Columbia University Press. 1999. ISBN0-231-11639-X.
• Life by the Numbers. Wiley. 1999. ISBN0471328227.
• The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip . Basic Books. 2000. ISBN0-465-01619-7.
• The Millennium Problems: the Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time . Basic Books. 2002. ISBN0-465-01730-4.
• The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) . Thunder's Mouth Press. 2006. ISBN1-56025-839-X.
• The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics . Plume. 2007. ISBN978-0-452-28857-7. with coauthor Gary Lorden
• The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern. Basic Books. 2008. ISBN978-0-465-00910-7.
• The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution. Walker Publishing Co. 2011. ISBN978-0-8027-7812-3.
• Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning. A K Peters. 2011. ISBN978-1-56881-431-5.
• Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. Keith Devlin (18 July 2012). 2012. ISBN978-0615653631.

References [edit]

1. ^ Author information from Library of Congress authorities.
2. ^ Item details for The language of mathematics from British Library catalogue.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Curriculum vitae, accessed 3 February 2014.
4. ^ Author information from German National Library catalogue Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
5. ^ Keith Devlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. ^ http://profkeithdevlin.com/DevlinVita.pdf^{[ bare URL ]}
7. ^ Archive of The Math Guy series from NPR's Weekend Edition accessed 9 November 2007
8. ^ BrainQuake
9. ^ Keith Devlin at STANFORD UNIVERSITY
10. ^ "Sagan Prize Recipients". wonderfest.org. 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
11. ^ Stanford Report—2 November 2005
12. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.

External links [edit]

• Official website including his curriculum vitae
• Devlin's Angle — column at the Mathematical Association of America

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Devlin

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