The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

Keith Devlin

ISBN 10: 0465016197 / ISBN 13: 9780465016198

Editore: BASIC BOOKS, 2001

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• Titolo: The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
• Editore: BASIC BOOKS
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465016197
• ISBN 13: 9780465016198
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Sehr gut
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The author of The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible introduces a new theory of language development to explain why some people learn to do math while others do not. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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Keith Devlin is the Dean of the School of Social Science at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is the author of 22 books, one interactive CD-ROM, and over 65 technical research papers in mathematics. His voice is heard regularly on National Public Radio, on such programs as "Weekend Edition," "Talk of the Nation," "Science Friday," "Sounds Like Science," and "To the Best of Our Knowledge." His previous books include Life by the Numbers, the companion to a PBS series that aired in April and May, 1998; Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic; and The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible.

Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher and Executive Director at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information, a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network. National Public Radio's "Math Guy," he is the author of over twenty-five books. He lives in Stanford, California.