Mathematician and Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR Institute Dr. Keith Devlin spoke about math, the symbol barrier and the development of understanding math through ...

Keith Devlin is a consulting professor in Stanford's Mathematics Department and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some biologists recognize his name because there's ...

Birds can do trigonometry. That's just one of many theorems in "The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along With Lobsters, Birds, Cats and Dogs)" by Keith Devlin, 58. That unwieldy ...

It's Mathematics Awareness Month, and this year's theme is Unraveling Complex Systems. Host Scott Simon talks to Weekend Edition Math Guy Keith Devlin about how math can be a guide to understanding ...

According to the NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin, all of the mathematical methods he learned at university have become obsolete in his lifetime. Devlin, the director of the Stanford Mathematics Outreach ...

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The Weekend Edition Saturday Math Guy, Stanford professor Keith Devlin, has a problem. In fact, he has more than one... which he's happy to share with Scott Simon. What is the probability that in a ...

People across the world are eating pies and celebrating the circle this Saturday — and this year's Pi Day is particularly special. The full date, 3/14/15, is pi to the first four places. At 9:26 a.m.