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Paul Hoffman

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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, ...more

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avg rating: 4.01 | 514 ratings | 102 reviews | 42 distinct works | 2 fans

	The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman avg rating 4.09 — 369 ratings — published 1998 6 editions	my rating:
	King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman avg rating 3.71 — 41 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics by Paul Hoffman avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 1988 5 editions	my rating:
	The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Paul Hoffman avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2000 2 editions	my rating:
	Perl for Dummies by Paul Hoffman avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1997 4 editions	my rating:
	To Drop a Dime by Paul Hoffman avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1976	my rating:
	The Golden Age of Censorship by Paul Hoffman avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 2007 2 editions	my rating:
	Netscape Communicator 4 for Dummies by Paul Hoffman avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997 2 editions	my rating:
	Synoptic Concordance: A Greek Concordance to the First Three Gospels in Synoptic Arrangement, Statistically Evaluated, Including Occurrences in Acts) (Synoptic Corcordance) by Paul Hoffman avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1999 2 editions	my rating: