John Allen Paulos | |
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| Born | July 4, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Known for | Author of books and articles on a variety of topics, especially the combatting of innumeracy |
| Awards | In 2003 AAAS Award, in 2013 JPBM Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Temple University |
| Thesis | Truth Adequancy and Truth Maximality for Logics[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Jon Barwise |
| Website | math.temple.edu/~paulos |
John Allen Paulos (born July 4, 1945) 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.[2]: 133, 213
- ^ John Allen Paulos at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ MacNeal, Edward (1994). Mathsemantics: Making Numbers Talk Sense. Penguin. ISBN 9780140234862.