Professor John Allen Paulos

John Allen Paulos is an author, popular public speaker, and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com and the Guardian (London). A professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia, he earned his PhD in the subject from the University of Wisconsin. His books include the New York Times bestseller Innumeracy ; A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper ; Once upon a Number , a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1998; and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market . He has also written scholarly papers on...See more

John Allen Paulos is an author, popular public speaker, and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com and the Guardian (London). A professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia, he earned his PhD in the subject from the University of Wisconsin. His books include the New York Times bestseller Innumeracy ; A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper ; Once upon a Number , a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1998; and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market . He has also written scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science as well as book reviews and articles in such publications as the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Forbes , the Nation , Discover , the American Scholar , and the London Review of Books . See less