{"id":1129,"date":"2008-11-01T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:45:42","slug":"john-allen-paulos-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"John Allen Paulos, discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1591\" href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=1591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1591\" title=\"John Allen Paulos\" src=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/150px-John_Allen_Paulos.JPG-105x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/150px-John_Allen_Paulos.JPG-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/150px-John_Allen_Paulos.JPG.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a>Thursday, November 6, 6:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Wine &amp; conversation with\u00a0<strong>John Allen Paulos:<\/strong> Discussion Forum<\/p>\n<p>Co-hosted by The Center for Inquiry<\/p>\n<p>Paulos has written on the vagaries of the stock market in A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, arguments for God in his most recent book, Irreligion, and the mathematical and philosophical basis of humor in Mathematics and Humor and I Think, Therefore I Laugh.<!--more--> &#8220;Who&#8217;s Counting,&#8221; his long-running monthly column on ABCNews.com, deals with mathematical aspects of stories in the news. Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia who has gained fame as a writer and speaker, most notably on the topic of the importance of mathematical literacy. His books Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper were influential bestsellers.<\/p>\n<p>$30 includes admission and wine<\/p>\n<p>Space is Limited; RSVP, (212) 504-2935 or twilliams [at] centerforinquiry [dot] net<\/p>\n<p class='fb-like'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1129&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=260&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:26px'><\/iframe><\/p><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1129\" type=\"box_count\"><\/fb:share-button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 6, 6:30PM Wine &amp; conversation with\u00a0John Allen Paulos: Discussion Forum Co-hosted by The Center for Inquiry Paulos has written on the vagaries of the stock market in A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, arguments for God in his most recent book, Irreligion, and the mathematical and philosophical basis of humor in Mathematics and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=1129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Allen Paulos, discussion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-science-research","category-lectures-and-panels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}