{"id":1991,"date":"2015-09-17T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2023-03-17T21:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:58:29","slug":"a-mathematician-reads-the-newspaper-john-allen-paulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2015\/09\/17\/a-mathematician-reads-the-newspaper-john-allen-paulos\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper &#8212; John Allen Paulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn-686x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn-686x1024.webp 686w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn-201x300.webp 201w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn-768x1146.webp 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn-101x150.webp 101w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/amrtn.webp 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A mathematician reads the newspaper and comments on it from a mathematics-oriented point of view. That\u2019s what this book is, and it\u2019s a fun and interesting read thanks to Paulos\u2019s clear writing and understated humour. I have a few of his books and they are all good. I do like this one because he says the sorts of things that I always think when I read the newspaper. Paulos is good at gleaning insight from fairly trivial-seeming things \u2013 like newspapers.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematician reads the newspaper and comments on it from a mathematics-oriented point of view. That\u2019s what this book is, and it\u2019s a fun and interesting read thanks to Paulos\u2019s clear writing and understated humour. I have a few of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2015\/09\/17\/a-mathematician-reads-the-newspaper-john-allen-paulos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,215,57],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-john-allen-paulos","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}