The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip by Keith J. Devlin

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

Keith J. Devlin

352 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction mathematics psychology science informative slow-paced
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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 The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question.Devl...

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