Biography
Devlin earned a B.Sc. (Special) in Mathematics at Kings College London and a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Frederick Rowbottom. He is co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), a co-founder of Stanford Media X university-industry research partnership program, and a Senior Researcher in the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). He is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy."
As of 2011, he is the author of 31 books and over 80 research articles. Several of his books are aimed at an audience of the general public, as opposed to much academic work.
His recent research work has focused on the development of new tools and protocols to assist intelligence analysis and the development and use of videogames in mathematics education.
Devlin is also creator of the concept "soft mathematics," introduced in the final chapter of his book Goodbye, Descartes.
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