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  <name><![CDATA[Paul Hoffman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Paul Hoffman (born 1956) is a prominent author and host of the PBS television series Great Minds of Science. He was president and editor in chief of Discover, in a ten-year tenure with that magazine, and served as president and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica before returning full-time to writing and consulting work. 

He lives in Woodstock, New York. Author of at least ten books, he has appeared on CBS This Morning and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as a correspondent. Hoffman is also a puzzlemaster using the pseudonym Dr. Crypton. He designed the puzzle in the 1984 book Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse. He also designed the treasure map in the 1984 film, Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. 

Hoffman holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Harvard. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of  Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Wisdom of Crocodiles]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Perl for Dummies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[To Drop a Dime]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Golden Age of Censorship]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Netscape Communicator 4 for Dummies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Synoptic Concordance: A Greek Concordance to the First Three Gospels in Synoptic Arrangement, Statistically Evaluated, Including Occurrences in Acts) (Synoptic Corcordance)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Hoffman]]></name>
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