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John Allen Paulos
(My web page is johnallenpaulos.com and my twitter feed is @johnallenpaulos.)John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker, and former monthly columnist for ABCNews.com, the Scientific American, and the Guardian. Professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia,... show more



(My web page is johnallenpaulos.com and my twitter feed is @johnallenpaulos.)John Allen Paulos is an extensively kudized author, popular public speaker, and former monthly columnist for ABCNews.com, the Scientific American, and the Guardian. Professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia, he earned his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Wisconsin.His new book (November, 2015) is A Numerate Life - A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours. Other writings of his include Innumeracy (NY Times bestseller for 18 weeks), A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (on the Random House Modern Library's compilation of the 100 best nonfiction books of the century), Once Upon a Number (chosen as one of the best books of 1998), and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (a brief tenant on the BusinessWeek bestsellers list). He's also written scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science as well as scores of OpEds, book reviews, and articles in publications such as the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Nation, Discover, the American Scholar, and the London Review of Books and has an extensive web and media presence.In 2003 he received the American Association for the Advancement of Science award for promoting public understanding of science, and in 2013 the Mathematics Communication Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics.

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Birth date: July 04, 1945
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Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 13 years ago
Quite an interesting read.
Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 13 years ago
Quite an interesting read.
Zrinka
Zrinka rated it 14 years ago
not as funny as i imagined it. sometimes even dull
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it 14 years ago
I'm moving on. Call this read. Maybe nobody will notice that it isn't.But it has made me discuss humour with people and I've been given some great ideas along the way. And I would like to preserve bits and pieces here.My mother said that when we were little we were really funny but that other kids a...
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Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 14 years ago
I've always felt that one of the really big philosophical questions concerns the nature of humour. What is humour? What purpose, if any, does it serve? Why are some things funny, and others not? I've thought about this stuff, on and off, for ages. The other day, I was poking around on Google and stu...
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