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John Allen Paulos to Close MATbaires 09

“A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper” is the intriguing title of the closing conference of the first edition of MATbaires 09, to be held at 7pm at the Cronopios hall of Centro Cultural Recoleta. The conference will be addressed by American mathematician and populariser John Allen Paulos and presented by film critic Eduardo “Quintín” Antin.

Structured like a newspaper, the conference investigates the mathematical angles of the news. Its title is eponymous with one of the most popular and kudized books by the author, also a professor at the prestigious Temple University in Philadelphia and a columnist for ABC News and British newspaper The Guardian. So popular is the book that it is on the readers’ list of the Random House Modern Library’s compilation of the 100 best nonfiction books of the century.