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. John Allen Paulos

Liane Hansen speaks with Temple University Professor John llen Paulos about his new book, A MATHEMATICIAN READS THE NEWSPAPER (Basic ooks, a division of Harper Collins). Paulos talks about how the general lack of athematical understanding puts American newspaper readers at a great isadvantage when stories contain statistics and other numerical information

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