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John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos
Born (1945-07-04) July 4, 1945 (age 79)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forAuthor of books and articles on a variety of topics, especially the combatting of innumeracy
AwardsIn 2003 AAAS Award, in 2013 JPBM Award
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTemple University
Thesis Truth Adequancy and Truth Maximality for Logics[1]
Doctoral advisorJon Barwise
Websitemath.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 

  1. ^ John Allen Paulos at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ MacNeal, Edward (1994). Mathsemantics: Making Numbers Talk Sense. Penguin. ISBN 9780140234862.

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