John Allen Paulos
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A propos de l'auteur
John Allen Paulos is professor of mathematics at Temple University and the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
Crédit image: by Leah Paulos
Œuvres de John Allen Paulos
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (2007) 505 exemplaires
A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours (2013) 38 exemplaires
Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More (2022) 8 exemplaires
'He Conquered the Conjecture' in NYRB 57/7, 29 April 2010 [review of Masha Gessen's 'Perfect Rigor: a genius and the… 1 exemplaire
Matematik ve Mizah. Translated by Tuncer Dogan 1 exemplaire
Commentary: Counting on Dyscalculia 1 exemplaire
Matematikçi Gazete Okuyor 1 exemplaire
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributeur — 630 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1945-07-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD|Mathematics)
- Professions
- mathematician
professor (Mathematics) - Organisations
- Temple University
- Prix et distinctions
- AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology (2003)
University Creativity Award (2002)
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh par John Allen Paulos
Great book in parts, but inconsistent quality and flow... This is a trip across a mix of fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge of different kinds. Excerpts from well-known stories, parables, paradoxes and jokes accompany the text to provide concrete examples behind the philosophy. But while the examples and theories are interesting, there is sometimes a difficult connection between the two and neither side is as clear as it could be. Nevertheless the parts that are good are good enough to make up for the overall choppy flow.… (plus d'informations)
Amusing anecdotes kept me reading, and some math elements are introduced, but it's not very deep. The main insight I got from this book was that even a trained mathematician can lose his shirt in the stock market due to wishful thinking.
Palos is hard to beat, when it comes to explaining both good and bad reasoning.
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- Œuvres
- 15
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- 2
- Membres
- 5,826
- Popularité
- #4,228
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 88
- ISBN
- 113
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 8