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1	Life by the Numbers more books like this by Keith J Devlin (Preface by) add to wishlist From uncanny movie dinosaurs to the loopy physics of the triple axel, Keith Devlin's vibrantly illustrated book illuminates the mathematics inherent in every human endeavor. "A beautiful book ...the aim is not to teach but to entertain, and it succeeds. The view that mathematics is dull is replaced by an image of how math can be both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Numbers Behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics more books like this by Keith J Devlin, Gary Lorden add to wishlist The companion to the hit CBS crime series "Numb3rs" presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crime. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $3.90! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Mathematics: The New Golden Age more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a "new golden age"? According to Keith Devlin, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.02! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist In this scholarly but straightforward work, a mathematician presents contemporary research that supports innate mathematical abilities in most humans. Through numerous exercises and supplementary illustrations, he suggests ways to retrain the mind by channeling capabilities for abstract thinking into a genuine understanding and appreciation of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Mathematician Devlin offers readers readers a primer for mathematics, its history, and recent development in the numbers field. LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS walks readers through a range of topics from non-Euclidean geometry, network theory, and quantum mechanics to the impacting legacy left by some of history's greatest mathematicians, including ... see all copies from $4.92! new only from $11.29! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Joy of Sets: Fundamentals of Contemporary Set Theory more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist This book is intended to provide an account of those parts of contemporary set theory that are relevant to other areas of pure mathematics. Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, the text is written in an easy-going style, with a minimum of formalism. The book begins with a review of "naive" set theory; it then ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $8.70! \| SVS
7	Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist "An attractive and wonderful book about an attractive, wonderful, and woefully misunderstood subject. If you think that mathematics is only about numbers and is only useful for making out your income tax, Keith Devlin's book will open your eyes to a new world - Mathematics, the Science of Patterns." Ian Stewart, author of Another Fine Math You've ... see all copies from $7.52! new only from $99.99! \| first editions
8	Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist "[Goodbye, Descartes] is certain to attract attention and controversy..a fascinating journey to the edges of logical thinking and beyond." -Publishers Weekly (???) Critical Acclaim for Keith Devlin's Previous Book Mathematics: The Science of Patterns "A book such as this belongs in the personal library of everyone interested in learning about some ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Mathematics more books like this by Keith J. Devlin add to wishlist Mathematics is more usefully understood as the study of patterns - real or imagined, visual or mental, arising from the natural world or from within the human mind. With a minimum of formulae and no elaborate formal proofs, Devlin presents mathematics as a unique human endeavour that helps us to understand the universe and ourselves. see all copies from $8.24! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
11	Logic and Information more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser degree, but the search for artificial intelligence has been hampered by our inability to create a theory that covers both of these characteristics. In ... see all copies from $4.84! new only from $22.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist The definitive account of the Everests of mathematics--the seven unsolved problems that define the state of the art in contemporary math. In 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.68! \| SVS
13 view cover	Infosense: Understanding Information to Survive in the Knowledge Society more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist A guide to managing information in a commercial environment demonstrates a systems approach to minimizing misunderstandings and maximizing the utilization of knowledge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Millennium Problems 1 more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist The definitive lay reader's account of the Everests of mathematics--the seven unsolved problems that definethe state of the art in contemporary math. In 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution ... see all copies from $2.41! new only from $12.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Infosense: Turning Information Into Knowledge more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Information has been called everything from the new gold standard to the fundamental building block of the universe. No matter where we live or what we do for a living, it is ever present in our lives, and many of us are barraged with it daily. Yet few of us know how to distinguish information from mere data, worthwhile communication, or real ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Sets, Functions, and Logic more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist This text provides a solid foundation in the basic logical concepts for most of the subjects encountered in university mathematics courses, including basic algebra and analysis. see all copies from $8.83! new only from $24.31!
17 view cover	Sets, Functions, and Logic: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Third Edition more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Keith Devlin. You know him. You've read his columns in "MAA Online", you've heard him on the radio, and you've seen his popular mathematics books. In between all those activities and his own research, he's been hard at work revising "Sets, Functions and Logic", his standard-setting text that has smoothed the road to pure mathematics for legions of ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $50.70! \| first editions
18	Language at Work: Analyzing Communication Breakdown in the Workplace to Inform Systems Design more books like this by Keith J Devlin, Duska Rosenberg add to wishlist People are very creative in their use of language. This observation was made convincingly by Chomsky in the 1950s and is generally accepted in the scientific communities concerned with the study of language. Computers, on the other hand, are neither creative, flexible, nor adaptable. This is in spite of the fact that their ability to process ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $24.46!
19 view cover	All the Math That's Fit to Pri more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist Do you expect to find articles about mathematics in your daily newspaper? If you are a reader of The Guardian you do, or at least you did during the second half of the 1980s. This volume collects many of the columns Keith Devlin wrote for The Guardian. Read them and assign them to your students to read. This is a book for delving in, and is ... see all copies from $13.46! new only from $56.25! \| first editions
20	Mathematics: 2the New Golden Age more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	The maths gene : why everyone has it, but most people don't use it more books like this by Keith J. Devlin add to wishlist The Maths Gene explains how the human mind came to - and continues to - perform mathematical reasoning. Where does this ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially the same as ours, so they must have had the same underlying ability. What purpose could it serve in 50,000bc? And what exactly goes on in our brains when we ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $20.00!
22 view cover	Calculus, Electronic Companion Series (Book ) more books like this by Keith J Devlin (Editor), Carol Pritchard-Martinez (Editor) add to wishlist This unique study guide contains a CD-ROM with multimedia coverage in both review and self-test modes, and a print workbook with additional explanation, applied worked examples, and problems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.41! \| SVS
23 view cover	Aspects of constructibility more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist see all copies from $32.20! new only from $32.20! \| SVS
24 view cover	Language of Mathematics Clothbound more books like this by Keith J. Devlin add to wishlist Keith Devlin argues in this text that mathematics is an integral part of our everyday lives. His argument is supported with such examples as: what keeps a jumbo jet in the air; how we forecast the weather; and how we predict changes in the stock market. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $85.06! \| first editions
25	Sets, Functions, and Logic: Basic Concepts of University Mathematics more books like this by Keith J Devlin add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions

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