Keith Devlin

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Keith Devlin is affiliated with the following schools: King's College London, University of Bristol, Stanford University

Why Is Keith Devlin Influential?

By Erik J. Larson, PhD

Devlin is formerly a Consulting Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University and now co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford’s Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, founded in 2006. He is also a member of Stanford’s Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), an important research center for work in computational linguistics, computer science, and mathematics. Devlin received his bachelor’s (special) in mathematics at Kings College, London and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol in 1971.

Devlin is a prolific writer about mathematics and related scientific disciplines, writing both for specialists and a general readership. He has authored over 30 books during his storied career as a mathematician, and 80 research articles! No wonder, then, that in 2007 Devlin was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. These days, Devlin’s research is focused mainly on applying media and other technologies to help students and others learn about math. For instance, he is co-founder and president of BrainQuake, a company that makes video games to facilitate learning mathematics. He is also known as the “Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is a commentator.

Devlin became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

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According to Wikipedia, Keith J. Devlin is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship. 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 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.

Keith Devlin's Published Works

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Published Papers

Logic and information (797)
A weak version of ◊ which follows from 2ℵ0<2ℵ1 (190)
Aspects of Constructibility (148)
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip (135)
Infosense: Turning Information into Knowledge (129)
The Souslin problem (128)
On the Singular Cardinals Problem (117)
The Joy of Sets (109)
Marginalia to a theorem of Silver (107)
WHY UNIVERSITIES REQUIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS TO TAKE MATH (104)
The joy of sets : fundamentals of contemporary set theory (101)
Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning (99)
Mathematics, the science of patterns : the search for order in life, mind, and the universe (93)
Situation theory and situation semantics (91)
Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (88)
Writing across the curriculum. (83)
Fundamentals of contemporary set theory (75)
THE COMPUTER MODELLING OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING (61)
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern (56)
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (52)
Mathematics : The New Golden Age (52)
PROPER FORCING(Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 940) (46)
The Computer as Crucible: An Introduction to Experimental Mathematics (45)
Using video games to combine learning and assessment in mathematics education (45)
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking (41)
Some weak versions of large cardinal axioms (39)
Language at Work: Analyzing Communication Breakdown in the Workplace to Inform Systems Design (37)
Surveys in set theory: THE YORKSHIREMAN'S GUIDE TO PROPER FORCING (36)
The Combinatorial Principle (35)
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution (35)
The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) (32)
The Millennium Problems : The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time (29)
Souslin Properties and Tree Topologies (27)
A note on the normal Moore space conjecture (26)
Viewpoint: the real reason why software engineers need math (24)
Modeling Real Reasoning (20)
The Axiom of Constructibility: A Guide for the Mathematician (20)
A note on the combinatorial principles (20)
Sets, Functions, and Logic (16)
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics (16)
Pragmatic phenomenological types. (15)
The Music of Math Games (15)
More on the free subset problem (15)
The logical structure of computer-aided mathematical reasoning (15)
Life by the Numbers (14)
Variations on \Diamond (14)
Kurt Gödel--Separating Truth from Proof in Mathematics (14)
Order types, trees, and a problem of Erdős and Hajnal (14)
Rather than scientific literacy, colleges should teach scientific awareness (14)
An Introduction to the Fine Structure of the Constructible Hierarchy (13)
Editorial: is Game-Based Math Learning Finally Coming of Age? (12)
Reduced powers of $ℵ_2$-trees (11)
Confronting context effects in intelligence analysis: How can mathematics help? (11)
INFORMATION IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN INTERACTION (11)
Situation Theory and the Design of Interactive Information Systems (9)
Jon Barwise's Papers on Natural Language Semantics (9)
Life by the numbers , by Keith Devlin. Pp. 214. £19.99. 1998. ISBN 0 471 24044 3 (Wiley). (8)
Good-bye Descartes? (8)
The consistency with CH of some consequences of Martin’s axiom plus $$2^{\aleph _0 } > \aleph _1 $$ (8)
Situation Theory and Social Structure (8)
The Development of Data Science: Implications for Education, Employment, Research, and the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (7)
A Mathematician Reflects on the Useful and Reliable Illusion of Reality in Mathematics (7)
The Axiom of Constructibility (7)
Note on a theorem of J. Baumgartner (7)
Non-Well-Founded Set Theory (7)
Primary school students' perceptions of scaffolding in digital game-based learning in mathematics (7)
Sentencing offenders in magistrates' courts (6)
Some Remarks on Changing Cofinalities (6)
Mathematics in popular culture : essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media (6)
The Fine Structure Theory (6)
Proof and other Dilemmas: What Will Count as Mathematics in 2100? (6)
Sets, Functions and Logic (6)
Indescribability properties and small large cardinals (5)
Logic for computer scientists : By Uwe Schöning. Birkhäuser, Therwill, Switzerland, 1989. Price SFr 48.00 (hardback), ISBN 3-7643-3453-3 (5)
Good stories, pity they’re not true (5)
How Technology Has Changed What It Means to Think Mathematically (5)
The Myth That Will Not Go Away (5)
Kurepa's hypothesis and the continuum (4)
The Pascal-Fermat Correspondence: How Mathematics Is Really Done. (4)
Infons as mathematical objects (4)
The Role of Conceptual Structure in Human Evolution (4)
Concerning the consistency of the Souslin hypothesis with the continuum hypothesis (4)
A Uniform Framework for Describing and Analyzing the Modern Battlfield (4)
An alternative to Martin’s axiom (4)
Reduce Skills Teaching in the Mathematics Class. (4)
A note on a problem of Erdös and Hajnal (4)
Modeling the Resituation of Memory in Neurobiology and Narrative (3)
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World (3)
On hereditarily separable Hausdorff spaces in the constructible universe (3)
How Mathematicians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer (3)
All numbers great and small (3)
Martin's Axiom Versus the Continuum Hypothesis (3)
Mathematical proofs in the computer age (3)
Media X: the new liberal arts? (3)
A new construction of a Kurepa tree with no Aronszajn subtree (3)
Remarks and Historical Notes (2)
Fermat's Last Theorem (2)
Constructibility and the continuum (2)
Information flow: the logic of distributed systems by Jon Barwise and Jerry Seligman (2)
What Is Experimental Mathematics (2)
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning Ecgbl 2014 Replacing Pisa with Global Game Based Assessment (2)
Networked information flow via stylized documents (2)
Test Tube Computing with DNA (2)
Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers (2)
Language at work - analyzing communication in the workplace to inform systems design (2)
Naive Set Theory (2)
Creating an educational tool that uses interactive representations to provide a new approach to mathematics learning (2)
Scientific Heat about Cold Hits (1)
The Perfect Medium (1)
Layered formalism and zooming in the analysis of stylized documents (1)
Data Science in Education, Employment, Research: Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (1)
Iterated souslin forcing, the principles ⋄(E) and a generalisation of the axiom SAD (1)
The Man of Numbers (1)
Algebra wa Al-Muqabala: an Essay by the Uniquely Wise ʾAbel Fath Omar Bin Al-Khayyam on Algebra and EquationsBy Omar Khayyam, translated by Roshdi Khalil (1)
Snake Eyes in the Garden of Eden (1)
Sets, Functions and Logic: Basic concepts of university mathematics (1)
Planting the Seeds of Algebra, 3-5: Explorations for the Upper Elementary Grades (1)
All the math that's fit to print : articles from the Manchester guardian (1)
Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition (1)
Morass-like constructions of ℵ2-trees in L (1)
A Mathematician at the Ballpark (1)
Constructibility by Keith J. Devlin (1)
Formulas for primes (1)
The Badly Taught High School Calculus Lesson and the Mathematical Journey It Led Me To (1)
Hierarchies of constructible sets (1)
Sets and functions (1)
Measurable Cardinals and a Combinatorial Principle of Jensen (1)
Teaching mathematics as a way of thinking – not calculating (0)
A uniform framework for describing and analyzing the modern battlefield ∗ FEASIBILITY STUDY , July 2011 (0)
What is set theory (0)
The Kurepa hypothesis (0)
Journal club (0)
Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University? (0)
Teaching mathematics as a way of thinking – not calculating (0)
The Story of 0 (0)
Fractions in Action: From Work with Teachers, Students, and Parents (Grades 3–5) (0)
Behind Multiplication Musings: Algebra Connections (0)
In retrospect (0)
Take It to the Limit (0)
A New Pedagogy (0)
Circling Circles: The Lesson (Grade 3) (0)
Evaluate the Following Integral (0)
Letters to the editor (0)
State of Play (0)
Beyond Fancy Fences: More Problems to Explore (0)
10 Reading Fibonacci (0)
Reasoning in a Human Mode (0)
3 First Steps (0)
Additional Reading and References (0)
What is a Computation (0)
Beyond Circling Circles: More Problems to Explore (0)
Danger! Always Exercise Caution When Using the Computer (0)
Information flow: the logic of distributed systems by Jon Barwise and Jerry Seligman (0)
Applications of V=L in mathematics (0)
Large large cardinals (0)
The kilderkin approach through a silicon gate (0)
On Forcing with Souslin Trees (0)
Topics in Pure Set Theory (0)
The generalised Souslin hypothesis for successor cardinals (0)
Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (0)
Chapter II: The Constructible Universe (0)
Mod mathematics 1801 style (0)
THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. (0)
Four famous problems (0)
The Story of 0: Despite zero's intriguing history, it's a bit player in the numbers game. (0)
Some Topics in Pure Set Theory (0)
A Mathematical Mystery Tour (0)
15 Leonardo and the Birth of Modern Finance (0)
Mathematic Proficiency: A New Focus in Mathematics Education (0)
Mathematicians discuss the Snowden revelations (0)
Primes and secret codes (0)
Iterated forcing Jensen style (0)
100 year old problem solved (0)
Numbers in the Garden and Geometry in the Jungle. (0)
14 This Will Change the World (0)
Independence Proofs in Set Theory (0)
Rigid souslin trees and lines (0)
Chapter IV: $\kappa^{+}$ Trees in $L$ and the Fine Structure Theory (0)
1 The Flood Plain (0)
Towards con(ZFC+CH+SH) : A false start (0)
Martin's axiom and the consistency of SH (0)
The combinatorial principles □κ (0)
Infinite Trees and the Axiom of Constructibility (0)
Symbols of Success: New Representations for Teaching and Doing Mathematics (0)
Preface to the Series Perspectives in Mathematical Logic (0)
Computer mathematics reaches its prime (0)
What Is Mathematics and What Does It Do for Us? (0)
The Most Important Function in Mathematics (0)
Morasses and the Cardinal Transfer Theorem (0)
Weakly compact cardinals and the generalised Souslin hypothesis (0)
Mathematics Education and Gee's 36 Video Game Learning Principles (0)
The real numbers (0)
Book Review: Recursion-theoretic hierarchies (0)
Review: Peter G. Hinman, Recursion-theoretic hierarchies (0)
Pi and chips (0)
What Is Experimental Mathematics? (0)
A Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Stylized Documents (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (0)
ESSLLI 2001, Helsinki, Finland The Mathematics of Information (0)
11 Manuscript Hunting, Part I (Failures) (0)
Ineffable cardinals and the generalised Kurepa hypothesis (0)
Appendix. Guide to the Chapters of Liber Abbaci (0)
Homogeneous souslin trees and lines (0)
The Jensen hierarchy of constructible sets (0)
12 Manuscript Hunting, Part II (Success at Last) (0)
5 A Walk along the Pisan Riverbank (0)
Money in the equation (0)
K+-Trees in L and the Fine Structure Theory (0)
Using dynamic, interactive representations to overcome known obstacles to mathematics learning (0)
The Language of Mathematics (0)
Move Over Fermat, Now It's Time for Beal's Problem (0)
Chapter VIII: Morasses and the Cardinal Transfer Theorem (0)
Review: Criminal Justice and the Treatment of Offenders (0)
Strongly compact cardinals and relative constructibility (0)
Book Review (0)
TBSH_A_559896_P 130..134 (0)
Recent Book: The Use of Prisons: The English Penal System in Transition (0)
BOOLEAN VALUED MODELS AND INDEPENDENCE PROOFS IN SET THEORY (0)
The Gap-1 two cardinals theorem (0)
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Higher Education 9 November – 11 November 2018 (0)
From five stars down (0)
Stuff We Left Out (Until Now) (0)
What Is ""Doing Mathematics"" Anyway? (0)
How Jensen killed a souslin tree (0)
ω 1-Trees in L (0)
Remark on a theorem of D. H. Fremlin concerning K-analytic Hausdorff spaces (0)
Another slice of pi (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (0)
A problem in measure theory (0)
The axiom of constructibility, the condensation lemma, and the consistency of the generalised continuum hypothesis (0)
The Oxen of the Sun (or how Archimedes’ number came up 2000 years too late) (0)
Micro-maths: Mathematical Problems and Theorems to Consider and Solve on a Computer (0)
What Is the Quadrillionth Decimal Place of π (0)
Medium large cardinals (0)
Use of language in mathematics (0)
Chapter III: $\omega_1$-Trees in $L$ (0)
Fringe maths (0)
The math gene: How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip (0)
Colouring by numbers (0)
The gap-2 two cardinals theorem. (Jensen) (0)
The fine structure of the Jensen hierarchy (0)
The constructible universe (0)
Small large cardinals (0)
The Zermelo—Fraenkel Axioms (0)
Jech Thomas. Set theory . Pure and applied mathematics. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1978, xi + 621 pp. (0)
Chapter VII: Trees and Large Cardinals in $L$ (0)
The combinatorial property (0)
Souslin's hypothesis (0)
2 The Manuscript (0)
Trees and Large Cardinals in L (0)
8 Publishing Fibonacci: From the Cloister to Amazon.Com (0)
True beyond reasonable doubt (0)
Chapter VI: The Fine Structure Theory (0)
Fancy Fences: The Lesson (Grades 4–5) (0)
Answers and Reflections (0)
Behind Circling Circles: Algebra Connections (0)
Euclid Would Have Taught Math This Way (0)
The Key Features of Gaming (0)
Playing the Negadecimal Game (0)
Developing Mathematical Proficiency in a Video Game (0)
13 The Missing Link (0)
6 A Very Boring Book (0)
The Souslin hypothesis (0)
Building a Successful Math Ed Video Game (0)
What Is That Number (0)
An Electronic companion to calculus (0)
Multiplication Musings: The Lesson (Grades 3–4) (0)
Prelude. Sputnik and Calculus (0)
Behind Fancy Fences: Algebra Connections (0)
Algebra and Beyond (0)
The Computer Knows More Math Than You Do (0)
Suggested Further Reading (0)
Information-based Model for Knowledge Management (0)
Perelman's Possible Poincaré Proof (0)
Language at work , by Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg. Pp. 212. £12.95. 1996. ISBN 1 57586 051 1 (CSLI, Stanford CA). (0)
16 Reflections in a Medieval Mirror (0)
Glossary of Notation (0)
Beyond Multiplication Musings: More Problems to Explore (0)
4 The Statue (0)

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