The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible

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Explains both the historical development and the current breadth of mathematics without assuming any technical knowledge on the part of the reader

About the Author: KEITH DEVLIN is Dean of the School of Science at Saint Mary's College of California and Senior Researcher at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. A key participant in the six-part PBS television series "Life by the Numbers," he is the author of Life by the Numbers; Goodbye, Descartes; Logic and Information; and Mathematics: The New Golden Age. His most recent book is InfoSense: Turning Information into Knowledge (W.H. Freeman, 1999). Since 1983, he has written a regular column on mathematics and computers for The Guardian in his native Britain, and writes a monthly column, "Devlin's Angle," for the Web journal MAA Online.

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