Keith Devlin at STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of the university's H-STAR institute, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. 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 28 books and over 80 published research articles. Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. In 2003, he was recognized by the California State Assembly for his "innovative work and longtime service in the field of mathematics and its relation to logic and linguistics." He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.

Office: Cordura Hall 118; EMail: devlin@stanford.edu; Address: Cordura Hall, 210 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
Administrative Assistant: Helen Roque, Cordura 119, Tel. (650) 725-1499, Fax (650) 723-0758, EMail: hroque@stanford.edu

Single page summary vita. PDF file, 1 page.
Complete vita. PDF file, 30 pages.

Current Stanford courses. For Stanford students only.

Recent books. including general audience mathematics books.
Listing of all published books. PDF file, 2 pages.
Literary agent. Ted Weinstein Literary Management, San Francisco.

Publicity photos for download High resolution color and B&W images.
Fun photos Off duty, on a bike.

Speaking engagements. General information and list of upcoming events.
Listing of all public lectures and radio and television appearances.
PDF file, 21 pages.

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.

NEW BOOK: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth Century Letter that Made the World Modern, Basic Books.

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

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