Are You Teaching Einstein's Equation for General Relativity?

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I think you could reach a lot of people. I wouldn't say everybody, but you could reach many more people than I reached now. Because if it was done right. Yeah, given the opportunity, requiring your book. Exactly. There you go. But yes, but he mean, actually, let's start. Two and two equals four is always foot forth. It's a kind of standard, simple fact. But, but everything is depends on context. If you take two cups of popcorn and add two cups of water to it, you get three cups of soggy popcorn, not four. So in that, I mean, so any bit of mathematics can be misapplied

People have a complicated relationship to mathematics. We all use it in our everyday lives, from calculating a tip at a restaurant to estimating the probability of some future event. But many people find the subject intimidating, if not off-putting. John Allen Paulos has long been working to make mathematics more approachable and encourage people to become more numerate. We talk about how people think about math, what kinds of math they should know, and the role of stories and narrative to make math come alive.

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John Allen Paulos received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Temple University. He s a bestselling author, and frequent contributor to publications such as ABCNews.com, the Guardian, and Scientific American. Among his awards are the Science Communication award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Mathematics Communication Award from the Joint Policy Board of Mathematics. His new book is Who’s Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More.

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