John Allen Paulos (Author of Innumeracy)

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Books by John Allen Paulos

Average rating: 3.63 · 2,095 ratings · 253 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 3.82 avg rating — 1,000 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up 3.47 avg rating — 448 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper 3.47 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Numeracy 3.66 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market 3.35 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories 3.30 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy 3.28 avg rating — 47 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor 3.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean by John Allen Paulos, Tullia Magrini 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Es War 1mal ...: Die Verborgene Mathematische Logik Des Alltaglichen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.”
― John Allen Paulos, Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers Man

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“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.”
― John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

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“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”
― John Allen Paulos

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