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According to Wikipedia, Keith James 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.

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Logic and information (1991) (817)
A weak version of ◊ which follows from 2ℵ0<2ℵ1 (1978) (213)
Aspects of Constructibility (1973) (163)
On the Singular Cardinals Problem (1981) (151)
The Souslin problem (1974) (145)
The math gene: How mathematical thinking evolved and why numbers are like gossip (2002) (143)
Infosense: Turning Information into Knowledge (1999) (131)
Marginalia to a theorem of Silver (1975) (115)
The joy of sets : fundamentals of contemporary set theory (1993) (115)
Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning (2011) (109)
Mathematics, the science of patterns : the search for order in life, mind, and the universe (1994) (108)
The Joy of Sets (1993) (106)
WHY UNIVERSITIES REQUIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS TO TAKE MATH (2003) (106)
Situation theory and situation semantics (2006) (101)
Writing across the curriculum. (1981) (94)
Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (1997) (90)
Fundamentals of contemporary set theory (1979) (79)
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (2009) (61)
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern (2008) (60)
PROPER FORCING(Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 940) (1983) (55)
Using video games to combine learning and assessment in mathematics education (2015) (54)
Mathematics : The New Golden Age (1988) (52)
THE COMPUTER MODELLING OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING (1986) (49)
The Computer as Crucible: An Introduction to Experimental Mathematics (2008) (47)
Some weak versions of large cardinal axioms (1973) (43)
Language at Work: Analyzing Communication Breakdown in the Workplace to Inform Systems Design (1996) (41)
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution (2011) (41)
The combinatorial principle ⋄# (1982) (40)
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking (2012) (38)
Surveys in set theory: THE YORKSHIREMAN'S GUIDE TO PROPER FORCING (1983) (38)
The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) (2005) (34)
Souslin Properties and Tree Topologies (1979) (32)
A Note on the Normal Moore Space Conjecture (1979) (28)
The Millennium Problems : The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time (2002) (25)
Viewpoint: the real reason why software engineers need math (2001) (24)
Modeling Real Reasoning (2009) (22)
The Axiom of Constructibility: A Guide for the Mathematician (1977) (22)
Primary school students' perceptions of scaffolding in digital game-based learning in mathematics (2021) (22)
A note on the combinatorial principles (1978) (21)
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics (2007) (18)
Sets, Functions, and Logic (1992) (17)
An Introduction to the Fine Structure of the Constructible Hierarchy (1972) (16)
The Music of Math Games (2014) (16)
The logical structure of computer-aided mathematical reasoning (1997) (16)
Kurt Gödel--Separating Truth from Proof in Mathematics (2002) (15)
More on the free subset problem (1973) (15)
Pragmatic phenomenological types. (2015) (15)
Editorial: is Game-Based Math Learning Finally Coming of Age? (2015) (15)
Order types, trees, and a problem of Erdős and Hajnal (1974) (15)
Rather than scientific literacy, colleges should teach scientific awareness (1998) (14)
Variations on \Diamond (1979) (14)
Note on a theorem of J. Baumgartner (1972) (13)
Reduced powers of $ℵ_2$-trees (1983) (11)
INFORMATION IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN INTERACTION (2008) (11)
Life by the Numbers (1998) (11)
Confronting context effects in intelligence analysis: How can mathematics help? (2005) (11)
Good-bye Descartes? (1996) (10)
Jon Barwise's Papers on Natural Language Semantics (2004) (9)
Situation Theory and the Design of Interactive Information Systems (1994) (9)
The Development of Data Science: Implications for Education, Employment, Research, and the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (2018) (9)
A Mathematician Reflects on the Useful and Reliable Illusion of Reality in Mathematics (2008) (8)
Situation Theory and Social Structure (1992) (8)
Mathematics in popular culture : essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media (2012) (8)
The consistency with CH of some consequences of Martin’s axiom plus $$2^{\aleph _0 } > \aleph _1 $$ (1978) (7)
Non-Well-Founded Set Theory (1993) (7)
Sentencing offenders in magistrates' courts (1970) (7)
The Fine Structure Theory (1984) (6)
Proof and other Dilemmas: What Will Count as Mathematics in 2100? (2008) (6)
All numbers great and small (1984) (6)
The Axiom of Constructibility (1993) (6)
Variations on ◊ (1979) (6)
Good stories, pity they’re not true (2004) (6)
Some remarks on changing cofinalities (1974) (6)
The Myth That Will Not Go Away (2007) (6)
How Technology Has Changed What It Means to Think Mathematically (2019) (5)
Kurepa's hypothesis and the continuum (1975) (5)
A note on a problem of Erdös and Hajnal (1975) (5)
Infons as mathematical objects (1992) (5)
Indescribability properties and small large cardinals (1975) (5)
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning Ecgbl 2014 Replacing Pisa with Global Game Based Assessment (2014) (5)
The Pascal-Fermat Correspondence: How Mathematics Is Really Done. (2010) (4)
Logic for computer scientists : By Uwe Schöning. Birkhäuser, Therwill, Switzerland, 1989. Price SFr 48.00 (hardback), ISBN 3-7643-3453-3 (1990) (4)
An alternative to Martin’s axiom (1976) (4)
A Uniform Framework for Describing and Analyzing the Modern Battlfield (2011) (4)
The Role of Conceptual Structure in Human Evolution (2000) (4)
A new construction of a Kurepa tree with no Aronszajn subtree (1983) (4)
Concerning the consistency of the Souslin hypothesis with the continuum hypothesis (1980) (4)
Reduce Skills Teaching in the Mathematics Class. (1999) (4)
Sets, Functions and Logic (1981) (4)
Martin's Axiom Versus the Continuum Hypothesis (1978) (3)
Remarks and Historical Notes (1984) (3)
On hereditarily separable Hausdorff spaces in the constructible universe (1974) (3)
Modeling the Resituation of Memory in Neurobiology and Narrative (2017) (3)
Media X: the new liberal arts? (2002) (3)
Networked information flow via stylized documents (1994) (2)
Fermat's Last Theorem (1994) (2)
Creating an educational tool that uses interactive representations to provide a new approach to mathematics learning (2021) (2)
Naive Set Theory (1993) (2)
Test Tube Computing with DNA (1995) (2)
Constructibility and the continuum (1973) (2)
Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World (2017) (2)
Formulas for primes (1984) (2)
How Mathematicians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer (2017) (2)
Iterated souslin forcing, the principles ⋄(E) and a generalisation of the axiom SAD (1978) (2)
The Perfect Medium (2011) (2)
What Is Experimental Mathematics? (2008) (2)
Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers (1993) (2)
Mathematical proofs in the computer age (1996) (2)
Sets and functions (1981) (1)
Sets, Functions and Logic: Basic concepts of university mathematics (1981) (1)
The Badly Taught High School Calculus Lesson and the Mathematical Journey It Led Me To (2015) (1)
Teaching mathematics as a way of thinking – not calculating (2021) (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 (2009) (1)
Snake Eyes in the Garden of Eden (2000) (1)
The Man of Numbers (2012) (1)
Planting the Seeds of Algebra, 3-5: Explorations for the Upper Elementary Grades (2014) (1)
Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition (2017) (1)
Data Science in Education, Employment, Research: Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (2018) (1)
Scientific Heat about Cold Hits (2007) (1)
Morass-like constructions of ℵ2-trees in L (1981) (1)
Hierarchies of constructible sets (1977) (1)
All the math that's fit to print : articles from the Manchester guardian (1994) (1)
Layered formalism and zooming in the analysis of stylized documents (1994) (1)
A Mathematician at the Ballpark (2005) (1)
Measurable cardinals and a combinatorial principle of Jensen (1973) (1)
Behind Fancy Fences: Algebra Connections (2015) (0)
Fractions in Action: From Work with Teachers, Students, and Parents (Grades 3–5) (2015) (0)
6 A Very Boring Book (2017) (0)
What Is That Number (2008) (0)
The Story of 0 (1984) (0)
4 The Statue (2017) (0)
Letters to the editor (1989) (0)
The Kurepa hypothesis (1973) (0)
In retrospect (1997) (0)
Evaluate the Following Integral (2008) (0)
The Souslin hypothesis (1973) (0)
Information flow: the logic of distributed systems by Jon Barwise and Jerry Seligman (1998) (0)
Behind Multiplication Musings: Algebra Connections (2015) (0)
13 The Missing Link (2017) (0)
The Computer Knows More Math Than You Do (2008) (0)
Reasoning in a Human Mode (1998) (0)
Fancy Fences: The Lesson (Grades 4–5) (2015) (0)
3 First Steps (2017) (0)
Answers and Reflections (2008) (0)
Prelude. Sputnik and Calculus (2017) (0)
Additional Reading and References (2008) (0)
Beyond Circling Circles: More Problems to Explore (2015) (0)
Suggested Further Reading (2011) (0)
Review: Peter G. Hinman, Recursion-theoretic hierarchies (1980) (0)
State of Play (2011) (0)
Move Over Fermat, Now It's Time for Beal's Problem (1998) (0)
1 The Flood Plain (2017) (0)
Some Topics in Pure Set Theory (1979) (0)
Chapter VI: The Fine Structure Theory (1984) (0)
Chapter II: The Constructible Universe (1984) (0)
Computer mathematics reaches its prime (1984) (0)
The Zermelo—Fraenkel Axioms (1993) (0)
Another slice of pi (1984) (0)
Recent Book: The Use of Prisons: The English Penal System in Transition (1970) (0)
On Forcing with Souslin Trees (1973) (0)
8 Publishing Fibonacci: From the Cloister to Amazon.Com (2017) (0)
Book Review (2005) (0)
K+-Trees in L and the Fine Structure Theory (1984) (0)
Book Review: Recursion-theoretic hierarchies (1980) (0)
The generalised Souslin hypothesis for successor cardinals (1973) (0)
Preface to the Series Perspectives in Mathematical Logic (2016) (0)
The Jensen hierarchy of constructible sets (1973) (0)
Use of language in mathematics (1981) (0)
Remark on a theorem of D. H. Fremlin concerning K-analytic Hausdorff spaces (1979) (0)
Using dynamic, interactive representations to overcome known obstacles to mathematics learning (2019) (0)
Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (1973) (0)
True beyond reasonable doubt (1984) (0)
THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. (0)
The combinatorial principles □κ (1973) (0)
The combinatorial property (1974) (0)
The real numbers (1981) (0)
Numbers in the Garden and Geometry in the Jungle. (2002) (0)
Colouring by numbers (1984) (0)
15 Leonardo and the Birth of Modern Finance (2017) (0)
Chapter VII: Trees and Large Cardinals in $L$ (1984) (0)
Review: Criminal Justice and the Treatment of Offenders (1969) (0)
2 The Manuscript (2017) (0)
From five stars down (1996) (0)
The Oxen of the Sun (or how Archimedes’ number came up 2000 years too late) (1984) (0)
Small large cardinals (1973) (0)
Mathematics Education and Gee's 36 Video Game Learning Principles (2011) (0)
The fine structure of the Jensen hierarchy (1973) (0)
Weakly compact cardinals and the generalised Souslin hypothesis (1973) (0)
Mathematicians discuss the Snowden revelations (2014) (0)
Iterated forcing Jensen style (1974) (0)
How Jensen killed a souslin tree (1974) (0)
Trees and Large Cardinals in L (1984) (0)
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Higher Education 9 November – 11 November 2018 (2018) (0)
Medium large cardinals (1973) (0)
Four famous problems (1977) (0)
Fringe maths (1997) (0)
Applications of V=L in mathematics (1977) (0)
The gap-2 two cardinals theorem. (Jensen) (1973) (0)
Mod mathematics 1801 style (1984) (0)
What Is the Quadrillionth Decimal Place of π (2008) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1999) (0)
A problem in measure theory (1977) (0)
What Is ""Doing Mathematics"" Anyway? (2011) (0)
12 Manuscript Hunting, Part II (Success at Last) (2017) (0)
Infinite Trees and the Axiom of Constructibility (1981) (0)
The axiom of constructibility, the condensation lemma, and the consistency of the generalised continuum hypothesis (1973) (0)
BOOLEAN VALUED MODELS AND INDEPENDENCE PROOFS IN SET THEORY (1978) (0)
11 Manuscript Hunting, Part I (Failures) (2017) (0)
The kilderkin approach through a silicon gate (1984) (0)
Chapter IV: $\kappa^{+}$ Trees in $L$ and the Fine Structure Theory (1984) (0)
Martin's axiom and the consistency of SH (1974) (0)
TBSH_A_559896_P 130..134 (2011) (0)
ω 1-Trees in L (1984) (0)
The Most Important Function in Mathematics (2008) (0)
14 This Will Change the World (2017) (0)
Homogeneous souslin trees and lines (1974) (0)
Micro-maths: Mathematical Problems and Theorems to Consider and Solve on a Computer (1984) (0)
The Language of Mathematics (1998) (0)
Large large cardinals (1973) (0)
Souslin's hypothesis (1974) (0)
100 year old problem solved (1984) (0)
Morasses and the Cardinal Transfer Theorem (1984) (0)
The constructible universe (1973) (0)
Jech Thomas. Set theory . Pure and applied mathematics. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, and London, 1978, xi + 621 pp. (1981) (0)
ESSLLI 2001, Helsinki, Finland The Mathematics of Information (2001) (0)
The Story of 0: Despite zero's intriguing history, it's a bit player in the numbers game. (2000) (0)
Independence Proofs in Set Theory (1993) (0)
Symbols of Success: New Representations for Teaching and Doing Mathematics (2017) (0)
Money in the equation (1997) (0)
Mathematic Proficiency: A New Focus in Mathematics Education (2011) (0)
The Gap-1 two cardinals theorem (1973) (0)
Chapter VIII: Morasses and the Cardinal Transfer Theorem (1984) (0)
What is set theory (1977) (0)
Towards con(ZFC+CH+SH) : A false start (1974) (0)
Stuff We Left Out (Until Now) (2008) (0)
Ineffable cardinals and the generalised Kurepa hypothesis (1973) (0)
Primes and secret codes (1984) (0)
A Situation-Theoretic Analysis of Stylized Documents (2007) (0)
Topics in Pure Set Theory (1993) (0)
Chapter III: $\omega_1$-Trees in $L$ (1984) (0)
Strongly compact cardinals and relative constructibility (1973) (0)
Rigid souslin trees and lines (1974) (0)
Pi and chips (1984) (0)
What Is Mathematics and What Does It Do for Us? (2018) (0)
5 A Walk along the Pisan Riverbank (2017) (0)
A Mathematical Mystery Tour (1985) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1999) (0)
Appendix. Guide to the Chapters of Liber Abbaci (2017) (0)
Glossary of Notation (1984) (0)
Publications received (1998) (0)
An Electronic companion to calculus (1997) (0)
What is a Computation (1995) (0)
Discussion: Does A New Kind of Science Require a New Kind of Scholar or a New Kind of University? (2002) (0)
Information-based Model for Knowledge Management (2007) (0)
Playing the Negadecimal Game (1995) (0)
A uniform framework for describing and analyzing the modern battlefield ∗ FEASIBILITY STUDY , July 2011 (2012) (0)
Perelman's Possible Poincaré Proof (2004) (0)
Circling Circles: The Lesson (Grade 3) (2015) (0)
Beyond Fancy Fences: More Problems to Explore (2015) (0)
Developing Mathematical Proficiency in a Video Game (2011) (0)
The Key Features of Gaming (2011) (0)
Building a Successful Math Ed Video Game (2011) (0)
Danger! Always Exercise Caution When Using the Computer (2008) (0)
16 Reflections in a Medieval Mirror (2017) (0)
Take It to the Limit (2008) (0)
Journal club (2008) (0)
Beyond Multiplication Musings: More Problems to Explore (2015) (0)
Language at work - analyzing communication in the workplace to inform systems design (1996) (0)
Seven up (1994) (0)
Algebra and Beyond (2011) (0)
Euclid Would Have Taught Math This Way (2011) (0)
10 Reading Fibonacci (2017) (0)
Multiplication Musings: The Lesson (Grades 3–4) (2015) (0)
Behind Circling Circles: Algebra Connections (2015) (0)

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