John Allen Paulos's Blog, page 21

JohnAllenPaulos: @CMastication "Assloada" does make more sense than "hella." Maybe you should contact the LA Times. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: @CMastication "Assloada" does make more sense than "hella." Maybe you should contact the LA Times. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: At first I thought this proposal to name 10^27 a hella - http://bit.ly/bi5UtU - derived from hela cells (Henrietta Lacks). It doesn't.

JohnAllenPaulos: At first I thought this proposal to name 10^27 a hella - http://bit.ly/bi5UtU - derived from hela cells (Henrietta Lacks). It doesn't.

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @ScriptPhD: Fun study: Requests to the Right Ear Are More Successful Than to the Left: http://bit.ly/c71Ut (via @entrep_thinking)

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @ScriptPhD: Fun study: Requests to the Right Ear Are More Successful Than to the Left: http://bit.ly/c71Ut (via @entrep_thinking)

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @DrMathochist: The Creative Process http://bit.ly/a7o6eN

JohnAllenPaulos: RT @DrMathochist: The Creative Process http://bit.ly/a7o6eN

JohnAllenPaulos: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks diner probably as imaginary as the version with Bogart, Dean, Elvis, MM: http://nyti.ms/aRJbS9.

JohnAllenPaulos: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks diner probably as imaginary as the version with Bogart, Dean, Elvis, MM: http://nyti.ms/aRJbS9.

JohnAllenPaulos: @Thai_Talk Hope the voice is a deep stentorian one with ominous thunder in the background. ;-)

JohnAllenPaulos: @Thai_Talk Hope the voice is a deep stentorian one with ominous thunder in the background. ;-)

Letters in Response to the 12.13.09 Issue

Letters from Jacqueline Myers, William J Haboush and Elaine Shattner comment on Dec 13 John Allen Paulos article on screening for breast cancer in younger women

Prime Roller, Prepare To Meet A Wiseacre

In this hasty and very lumpy volume John Allen Paulos proposes to expose the irrational basis of religious thinking, much the way he exposed rampant mathematical illiteracy in “Innumeracy.”

Prime Roller, Prepare to Meet a Wiseacre

In this hasty and very lumpy volume John Allen Paulos proposes to expose the irrational basis of religious thinking, much the way he exposed rampant mathematical illiteracy in "Innumeracy."

Proof

A mathematician tries to refute the arguments for the existence of God.