Mathematician:Keith James Devlin

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Mathematician

English author and publicist of mathematics.


Nationality

English


History

  • Born: 16 March, 1947, Hull, Great Britain.


Publications

  • 1979: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory
  • 1984: Constructibility
  • 1991: Logic and Information
  • 1993: The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory (expanded and rewritten edition of Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory from 1979)
  • 1996: Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
  • 1998: The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
  • 1999: Mathematics: The New Golden Age
  • 2000: The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
  • 2002: The Millennium Problems
  • 2006: The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs)
  • 2007: The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics (with Gary Lorden)
  • 2008: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern