Keith Devlin: 8 books
Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives...
by Keith Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this short e-book (about 14,000 words), Stanford mathematician and NPR's "Math Guy" Keith Devlin Ph.D. presents the fascinating similarities between 13th Century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, more commonly known as Fibonacci, and Steve Jobs, the 20th Century founder of Apple computers.In...
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS
Solving Crime with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime
Using the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with...
The Math Gene
How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there's some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking-which there must be, otherwise no one could do it -why can't we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them...
The Man of Numbers
Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant...
The Unfinished Game
Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining that...
by Keith Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1999
Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse?
Only one tool of the human mind has the power...
The Math Instinct
Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs)
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh Corgis - and us - is innate. But what innate calculating skills do we humans have? Leaving aside built-in mathematics, such as the visual system, ordinary people do just fine when faced with...