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
The voice of John Allen Paulos
recorded July 2015 at TAM13
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.
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