Dr. Paulos is a best-selling, extensively kudized author, occasional public speaker, and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com. His writings include Innumeracy, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, and Once Upon a Number, scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science, and scores of OpEds, book reviews, and articles in publications such as the NYT, the Nation, the WSJ, Discover, and the London Review of Books.
 
The audiences he's addressed range from those in classrooms to members of the Smithsonian, from Harvard's Nieman Fellows to its Hasty Pudding Club, from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences to college gatherings, including the commencement assembly at the University of Wisconsin, and from mathematical associations to financial forums.) Paulos has appeared frequently on radio and television, including a four-part BBC adaptation of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and an appearance on the David Letterman Show, and was even the answer to a Jeopardy question. With these curious credentials, he was recently appointed no the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News where, in his newspaper book and columns, he tries to straddle the disparate realms of Pythagoras and Pulitzer.