Example sentences for: paulos

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  • (To read Paulos' June dispatches in

  • In the Journal , mathematician John Allen Paulos notes that no amount of technological advance will repeal Murphy's Law--hence last week's loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which crashed after being fed data in pounds rather than newtons.

  • "An event with a one-in-a-million chance of happening to any American on any given day will, in fact, occur 260 times each day in this country," notes mathematician John Allen Paulos ( NYT ), who argues that the EgyptAir crash was almost certainly a random event.

  • Increasingly complex human systems, Paulos writes, will never escape the clutches of foolish humans.

  • (Read Paulos' "Breakfast Table" dispatches here.)


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