The Math Gene - by Keith Devlin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Why is math so hard? And why are some people so good at it? Keith Devlin has answers to these questions, and shows how mathematical ability evolved, why it's a part of language ability, and how readers can make better use of this innate talent.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>If people are endowed with a number instinct similar to the language instinct -- as recent research suggests -- then why can't everyone do math? In <i>The Math Gene</i>, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question. Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language. Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Keith Devlin</b> 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.
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