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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 he had discovered how to calculate risk. The two collaborated to develop what is now known as probability theory--a concept that allows us to thi...

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 of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was as an expositor of mathematical ideas at a level ordinary people could understand. In 1...

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Tutti conoscono la "successione di Fibonacci": una sequenza di cifre nascosta in molti fenomeni naturali che da oltre ottocento anni affascina i matematici, e che si dice possa predire l'andamento dei mercati finanziari. Ma chi fu in realtà Fibonacci, considerato il maggiore matematico del Medioevo, che comprese per primo che le "nove figure indiane" e soprattutto zephirum, lo zero, avrebbero cambiato il mondo in cui viveva? In un affascinante...

A comprehensive account of the theory of constructible sets at an advanced level, aimed at graduate mathematicians.

È difficile pensare alla matematica come a una disciplina in continua evoluzione. La scienza esatta per eccellenza, immutabile dai tempi di Newton, o persino di Euclide, non sembra poter ammettere al suo interno ricerca o mutamento alcuno. Lo scopo di Devlin è sfatare questo luogo comune, mostrando in quali direzioni inaspettate si sia mossa la ricerca matematica negli ultimi decenni. Il panorama è ampio e differenziato: ad argomenti classici,...

Lässt sich die Zukunft vorhersagen, Glück berechnen? Bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts lautete die Antwort: Nein. Doch dann erfanden Blaise Pascal, einer der berühmtesten Philosophen seiner Zeit, und Pierre Fermat, der genialste Mathematiker der Epoche, in einem Briefwechsel die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Keith Devlin, Autor des Bestsellers "Das Mathe-Gen", erzählt hier, wie das Wahrscheinlichkeitsdenken ausgehend von den Spielsalons unsere...

Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but also of interest to game developers who want to produce videogames for mathematics education, Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning describes exactly what is involved in designing and producing successful math ed...

This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naïve" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory before discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. It then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as the Borel hierarchy and Lebesgue measure. A final chapter presents an alternative conception of set theory useful in computer science.

The companion to the hit CBS crime series "Numb3rs" presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime.

This text covers the parts of contemporary set theory relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. After a review of "naïve" set theory, it develops the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of the theory before discussing the ordinal and cardinal numbers. It then delves into contemporary set theory, covering such topics as the Borel hierarchy and Lebesgue measure. A final chapter presents an alternative conception of set theory useful in computer science.

In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Professor Keith Devlin argues that in order to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition, we must broaden our concept of logic.

The application of Situation Theory in the study of language use in everyday communication to improve human/computer interaction is explored and espoused.

The application of Situation Theory in the study of language use in everyday communication to improve human/computer interaction is explored and espoused.

The purpose of this book is to provide the student beginning undergraduate mathematics with a solid foundation in the basic logical concepts necessary for most of the subjects encountered in a university mathematics course. The main distinction between most school mathematics and university mathematics lies in the degree of rigour demanded at university level. In general, the new student has no experience of wholly rigorous definitions and pro...

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 mathematical tasks in the course of the day. Yet when they are confronted with the same tasks presented as "math, " their accuracy often drops. ...

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 and versatility to answer so many questions about our world-mathematics. Far from a musty set of equations and proofs, mathematics is a vital and creative w...

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