I Think, Therefore I Laugh - 00 edition

Paulos, John Allen : Temple University

John Allen Paulos - best-selling author and mathematician - is professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia. In addition to a number of scholarly papers on mathematical logic, probability, and the philosophy of science, Dr. Paulos has written numerous books, including Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, and Once Upon a Number. Familiar to listeners from his appearances on National Public Radio´s "Talk of the Nation" and "Science Friday," he also writes the monthly "Who´s Counting" for ABCNews.com and has written for Discover Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post´s Book World, as well as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

"Paulos is brilliant at capturing difficult ideas in a memorable joke. I've never laughed so much while thinking so hard."

--Brian Butterworth, author of What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math

Submitted by Publisher, January. 2002

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