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Paulos - Brief Resume

(A much more extensive Curriculum Vitae is available and as a Word document upon request.)

Bestselling author, mathematician, public speaker, and

monthly columnist

for

and the, John Allen Paulos

in Chicago and Milwaukee

and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University

of Wisconsin. Now professor of mathematics at Temple University

in Philadelphia, he is married and the father of two children.

In addition to being the author of a number of scholarly papers on

mathematical logic, probability, and the philosophy of science, Dr.

Paulos has written Mathematics and Humor,

I Think, Therefore I Laugh, Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its

Consequences, Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a Numbers

Man, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Once Upon

a Number, and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.

The first two books were published by university presses in

1980 and 1985, respectively, and were quite well-received. Innumeracy

was on the New York Times bestseller list for five months in 1989 and

was very favorably reviewed and extensively discussed in the national

media - on television (the MacNeil/Lehrer Show, the Today Show, the David

Letterman Show), on radio (more than 100 interviews including the Larry

King Show and NPR's Fresh Air), and in newspapers and periodicals from coast

to coast. Innumeracy was a selection of Book-of-the-Month Club and

other book clubs and was translated into thirteen foreign languages.

Beyond Numeracy was published in 1991 by Knopf/Random House. It too was

widely and favorably reviewed, led to many media appearances, was

selected by Book-of-the-Month Club, and was translated into half a

dozen languages.

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper,

published in 1995,

received very positive reviews in many newspapers and journals as well,

made appearances on several bestsellers lists, including a

#1 showing on, and was hailed by Random House readers

in a poll of the best books of the century. (Paulos has declined to

subject the poll to his usual withering scrutiny.)

Once Upon a Number, published in

1998, was selected by the Los Angeles Times

as one of the best nonfiction books of the year, and A Mathematician Plays the

Stock Market also received glowing notices and made the

Business Week bestsellers list.

A sampling of other and appearances

include his Folio Ovation winning article "Dyscalculia" in Discover

magazine, articles in a variety of prestigious periodicals on the mathematical

aspects of stories on health, business, popular culture, finance, and

the media,

a discussion of Innumeracy in the American Math

Monthly, a long article

on education for the NY Times Book Review,

reviews of dozens of books [ranging from

biographies of Linus Pauling (New York Times), Paul Erdos, and John

Nash (Los Angeles Times) to Hans Magnus Enzensberger's

The Number Devil (New York Review of Books), Brian Butterworth's

The Mathematical Brain (London Review of Books),

Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality (Los Angeles Times), and Where Mathematics

Comes From (The American Scholar) by Lakoff and Nunez], National Public

Radio appearances on Talk of the Nation and Science Friday (three

times), full feature interviews and profiles in several magazines,

including People, Worth, and Omni (as well as the Chronicle

of Higher Education),

numerous appearances on public radio, CNN, C-Span, C-Span Book TV,

and the like, a four-part BBC adaptation of A Mathematician

Reads the Newspaper, and OpEds in newspapers such as the Wall Street

Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times on, among other

topics, the Unabomber, the stock market, the EgyptianAir crash, the

2000 election, the WTC attacks, and WorldCom's collapse.

Paulos was also an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University,

a Fellow of CSICOP/Skeptical

Inquirer, a member of the editorial board of the

Philadelphia Daily News. As mentioned, he writes the monthly "Who's Counting" column for as well as a monthly column for The

Guardian, where

he opines on mathematically-flavored

issues in the news.

An active public speaker whose talks are both illuminating and humorous, Paulos has spoken to a wide array of, including the Smithsonian

(three times), Harvard's Niemann Journalism Fellows, Nicholas Applegate

Investments, Goldman Sachs, the Trial Lawyers of America, NASA, the

National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, the EPA,

Dupont, Rohm and Haas, AT&T, many colleges and universities

(including commencement assemblies at the University of Wisconsin and

University of South Carolina).

He is also periodically called upon to be a talking head on

matters mathematical,

in particular during the 2000 election when he appeared on 20/20, the Lehrer

News Hour, and

NBC Nightly News and when his OpEds were cited by entities ranging from the

New Yorker magazine to the Chief Judge of the Florida Supreme Court.

CNN commentator Jeff Greenfield even wrote that Paulos'

on

the election were the wisest uttered by any pundit. He also wrote a widely

cited OpEd on the between the exit polls

and final tallies during the 2004 presidential election.

In 2002 he received the University Creativity Award and in 2003 the American

Association for the Advancement of Science award for promoting

public understanding of science.

Paulos may be reached

at abpi7x@r.postjobfree.com.

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