Keith Devlin
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Keith Devlin (2011)
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| Born | 16 March,[1] 1947[2][3] Hull, England[4][5] |
| Nationality | English and American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford University, King's College London, University of Bristol, University of Manchester, University of Aberdeen, University of Oslo, University of Heidelberg, University of Bonn, University of Toronto, University of Lancaster, Colby College, St. Mary's College of California |
| Alma mater | King's College London, University of Bristol |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Rowbottom |
Keith J. Devlin is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual American-British citizenship.[4]
Biography
Devlin earned a BSc (Special) 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.[4][6] He is co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, a co-founder of Stanford Media X university-industry research partnership program, and a Senior Researcher in the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI).[4] He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy."[7]
As of 2012, he is the author of 34 books and over 80 research articles.[4] Several of his books are aimed at an audience of the general public, as opposed to much academic work.
Research publications
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Awards
- Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award, 2001[4]
- In 2007 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.[8]
- 2004 International Pythagoras Prize in Mathematics, in the category Best Expository Text in the Mathematical Sciences for the Italian translation of The Millennium Problems[9]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[10]
References
- ↑ Author biographical information from Barnes & Noble.
- ↑ Author information from Library of Congress authorities.
- ↑ Item details for The language of mathematics from British Library catalogue.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Curriculum vitae, accessed 2014-02-03.
- ↑ Author information from German National Library catalogue.
- ↑ Keith Devlin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Archive of The Math Guy series from NPR's Weekend Edition accessed 2007-11-09
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- ↑ Stanford Report—2 November 2005
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
External links
- Official website including his curriculum vitae
- Devlin's Angle — column at the Mathematical Association of America
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- Alumni of King's College London
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- Set theorists
- Stanford University staff
- 20th-century British mathematicians
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- Mathematicians from Kingston upon Hull
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