| John Allen Paulos  Born: 4-Jul-1945
Birthplace: Denver, CO
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Mathematician, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Innumeracy Wife: (two children)
High School: Milwaukee, WI
University: BS Mathematics, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1967)
University: MS, University of Washington (1968)
University: PhD Mathematics, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1974)
Professor: Temple University (1973-)
Professor: Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
The Guardian Columnist
Philadelphia Daily News Editorial Board Member (former)
Discover Columnist
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow
CSICOP
Peace Corps 1970
Greek Ancestry
Official Website:
http://www.math.temple.edu/paulos
Author of books:
Mathematics & Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor (1980)
I Think Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy (1985)
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988)
Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man (1991)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)
Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories (1998)
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (2003)
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (2007)
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