Dr. Keith Devlin is a mathematician who's also known as The Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition. He has written several books explaining math to the masses. And he's also the co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-Star).
We spoke with Dr. Devlin about why math is difficult to understand and explain, how we tend to know more about mathematicians' lives than their work, and whether programs like Khan Academy help or hurt students.
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