John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, is the author of a book titled Once Upon a Number.
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Wed, Dec 15, 1999 - Page 9 News List
After a plane crash, fear overtakes logic
Accidents are usually accidents: a passenger who daily and randomly takes a jet flight between US cities would, on average, go 19,000 years before dying in a crash, according to a US mathematics professor who studies such things
By John Allen Paulos / NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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