Introduction
Keith J. Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual American-British citizenship.
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. 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). He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy."
As of 2012, he is the author of 34 books and over 80 research articles. Several of his books are aimed at an audience of the general public.
Research publications
- [First proof of Jensen's covering theorem; Keith J. Devlin is credited as Keith I. Devlin in the paper.]
Awards
- Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award, 2001
- In 2007 he received Wonderfest's Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
- 2004 International Pythagoras Prize in Mathematics, in the category Best Expository Text in the Mathematical Sciences for the Italian translation of The Millennium Problems
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012