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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, and Danny De...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,460 ratings · 182 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth 4.13 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	My rating:
	King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game 3.69 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Left Hand of God (The Left Hand of God, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 2,461 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2) 3.39 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Dictionary Shmictionary!: A Yiddish and Yinglish Dictionary by Paul Hoffman, Matt Friedman 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	The Sayings of Jesus: The Sayings Gospel Q in English 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tiger In The Court 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	Hōrō No Tensai Sūgakusha Erudeshu 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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“Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad.”
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“Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes”
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“non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed)”
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