For most people, the word "algebra" conjures classroom memories of Xs and Ys. Weekend Edition's math guy, Keith Devlin, says that's because most schools do a terrible job of teaching it. He talks with ...

Mathematician and Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR Institute Dr. Keith Devlin spoke about math, the symbol barrier and the development of understanding math through ...

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Birds can do trigonometry. That's just one of many theorems in "The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along With Lobsters, Birds, Cats and Dogs)" by Keith Devlin, 58. That unwieldy ...