Keith Devlin: Recent Books

InfoSense: Turning Information into Knowledge, W. H. Freeman (1999).
Goodbye Descartes:The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind, John Wiley (1997).
Language at Work--Analyzing Communication Breakdown in the Workplace to Inform Systems Design, joint with Duska Rosenberg, Stanford University: CSLI Publications and Cambridge University Press (1996).
Logic and Information, Cambridge University Press (1991, paperback 1995). (American Association of Publishers award as "Most Outstanding Book in Computer Science and Data Processing of 1991")

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth Century Letter that Made the World Modern, Basic Books (2008).
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crimes with Mathematics, with Gary Lorden, Penguin-Plume (2007) .
The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius (along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs), Avalon Publishing: Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, Basic Books (2002).
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, Basic Books (2000). (The Italian translation won the Peano Prize in 2002.)
Mathematics: The New Golden Age (Second Edition), Columbia University Press (1999).
The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible, W. H. Freeman (1998). (The Italian translation won the Peano Prize in 2002.)
Life by the Numbers, John Wiley (1998). (The official companion to the PBS television series of the same name.)
Mathematics: The Science of Patterns, W. H. Freeman, Scientific American Library (1994).

The Computer as Crucible, with Jonathan Borwein, A.K. Peters (2008).
Sets, Functions and Logic (Third Edition), Chapman and Hall (2003).
The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory, Springer Verlag (1993).

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