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John Allen Paulos

Mathematics

#461

World Rank

#907

Historical Rank

#207

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#4826

World Rank

#5650

Historical Rank

#1345

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has gained fame as a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. Paulos writes about many subjects, especially of the dangers of mathematical innumeracy; that is, the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.

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John Allen Paulos's Published Works

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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1988) (248)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995) (130)
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market (2003) (46)
Mathematics and Humor (1980) (45)
Once upon a number : the hidden mathematical logic of stories (1998) (37)
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor (1982) (31)
Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man (1991) (30)
Beyond numeracy : an uncommon dictionary of mathematics (1993) (8)
I think, therefore I laugh : the flip side of philosophy (2000) (8)
A mathematician plays the market (2004) (5)
I think, therefore I laugh: An alternative approach to philosophy (1985) (5)
I Think, Therefore I Laugh (1985) (4)
A model-theoretic semantics for modal logic (1976) (2)
Weighing the positives. (2011) (2)
Once upon a number (1998) (2)
Probabilistic, truth-value, and standard semantics and the primacy of predicate logic (1981) (1)
A Few Reflections on A Numerate Life (2018) (1)
THE SHAPING EFFECT ON COPYRIGHT LAW (2009) (1)
A model-theoretic explication of the theses of Kuhn and Whorf (1980) (1)
Why you're probably less popular than your friends. (2011) (0)
What You Don't Know … (1998) (0)
If everybody knows so much about education, why doesn't education work? (1993) (0)
ANALFABETYZM MATEMATYCZNY – ZNACZENIE SPOŁECZNE Mathematical illiteracy – social significance (0)
Bigger plates, more food--or is it the other way around? (2011) (0)
No X-aggeration. How companies can gather information and still preserve privacy. (2011) (0)
In short: Nonfiction (1994) (0)
No X-aggeration (2011) (0)
A model-theoretic account of confirmation (1979) (0)

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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

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