THE MATH GENE: HOW MATHEMATICAL THINKING EVOLVED AND WHY NUMBERS ARE LIKE GOSSIP

Book ID/图书代码： 03830000B16367

English Summary/英文概要： Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there’s some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking—which there must be, otherwise no one could do it —why can’t we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them shows us how mathematical ability evolved, why it’s a part of language ability, and how we can make better use of this innate talent. He also offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development—that language evolved in two stages, and its main purpose was not communication—to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the emergence of true language. Why, then, can’t we do math as well as we can speak? The answer says Devlin, is that we can and do—we just don’t recognize when we’re using mathematical reasoning.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你會聊八卦，一定會算數學

人人都有數學基因，全憑你如何開發！
數學這麼難，為什麼還是有人能理解？如果與生俱來就有數學基因，為什麼大部分人不知如何運用？

「你能搞懂那些八卦緋聞之間曲折離奇的關係，那麼理解眼前的數字絕非難事！」

作者在書中解釋語言與數學間密切的關係，闡述正反兩方看法。透過演繹大腦運算的過程加以證明。同時提出「溝通」並非語言天賦演進的主要目的。另外分析固有的邏輯思考模式如何影響數學演算、語言天賦。不管你是熱愛還是憎恨數學，這本書將使你對數學會有不同以往的看法。(Iris)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Keith Devlin教授素有the Math Guy之稱。任教於加州史丹佛大學，是位享譽國際的數學家。出版超過三十本著作，發表超過八十篇的論文。曾獲得國際畢達哥拉斯獎(International Pythagoras Prize)和皮亞諾獎(Peano Prize)等多項大獎。目前是史丹佛大學多項實驗計畫的發起人及資深研究員。
Dr. Keith Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University in California. He is a co-founder and Executive Director of the university’s H-STAR institute, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles. His books have been awarded the Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize, and his writing has earned him the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. In 2003, he was recognized by the California State Assembly for his "innovative work and longtime service in the field of mathematics and its relation to logic and linguistics." He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio. (Archived at:http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/MathGuy.html.)
He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition.
He writes a monthly column for the Mathematical Association of America, "Devlin’s Angle": http://www.maa.org/devlin/devangle.html

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