KEITH DEVLIN is executive director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information and a consulting professor of mathematics at Stanford University. His newest book, The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius (Along With Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs), will be published next spring by Thunder’s Mouth Press.
SAM EIFLING writes for New Times, an alternative weekly in Fort Lauderdale. His work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, Slate, Florida Today, New York, and ESPN.com.
DAVID EPSTEIN is a New York Daily News intern with a master’s degree in environmental science from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.