Keith Devlin at STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Dr. Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher at CSLI and its Executive Director, a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and of the university's H-STAR institute. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition. He has written 26 books and over 75 published research articles. Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.

Office: Cordura Hall 114; EMail: devlin@csli.stanford.edu; Address: CSLI, Cordura Hall, 210 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
Administrative Assistant: Darla Hart, Tel. (650) 725-3286, Fax (650) 723-0758, EMail: hart@stanford.edu

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Current Stanford courses. For Stanford students only.

Recent books. CSLI related books and general audience mathematics books.
Listing of all published books. PDF file, 2 pages.
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Speaking engagements. General information and list of upcoming events.

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Devlin's Angle on MAA Online. Select "Columns" for the current "Devlin's Angle" and the complete archive back to 1996.

"The Math Guy" on NPR's Weekend Edition. The complete sound archive of all the "Math Guy" segments since 1996.

Streaming videos/audio on the Web. Videos/audios of talks/interviews given.

Recent research. Preprints (in PDF format) of research papers in progress or completed but not yet published.

Meeting Archimedes. Keith Devlin takes a close look at the Archimedes palimpsest. [PHOTOS]

Pildra devlini This is for real. Paleontologist Judd Case honored Devlin by naming after him an extinct species of possum he discovered.

COMING SOON : The Computer as Crucible: an Introduction to Experimental Mathematics, with Jonathan Borwein, from A.K. Peters.

LATEST BOOK: The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crimes with Mathematics, the companion book to the hit CBS television series, co-authored with Gary Lorden, Caltech Professor of Mathematics and the Principal Mathematics Advisor to NUMB3RS.

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