Keith Devlin
Born
in Kingston Upon Hull, The United Kingdom
March 16, 1947
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The Millennium Problems
21 editions
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2002
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The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution
23 editions
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2011
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Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
6 editions
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2012
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The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
19 editions
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2000
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The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible
19 editions
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published
1998
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The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
19 editions
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2008
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The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics
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9 editions
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2007
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The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius
13 editions
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published
2005
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Mathematics: The New Golden Age
17 editions
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published
1988
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Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe
4 editions
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1994
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“Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime.â€�? It’s the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
― Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
“Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler’s equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.”
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“For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to
convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures
to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers
to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the \what?"
and the \why?" of the big picture.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures
to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers
to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the \what?"
and the \why?" of the big picture.”
― Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
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