Picture this. You’re in a relaxed frame of mind and reading the morning newspaper over a strong, steaming cup of coffee, or tea, in the comfort of your all-time favourite piece of furniture — the easy chair.
This is a wonderful theme, which has had a continuity like no other — one that will last till kingdom come. For one simple reason, as John Allen Paulos, the ‘mathematically spunky’ author of a wise, petite book, under scrutiny, puts it, that newspapers will always be new with an element of eternal romance in them.
Paulos’ A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper, first published 25 years ago (reprinted, 2013), is structured like your morning newspaper: fresh, dainty, and as serene as the first light dew. “Despite talk of the ascendancy of multimedia,” says Paulos, “and, the decline of the print media, I think rational tendencies that newspapers foster will survive, and that in some form, or the other, newspapers will remain our primary means of considered public discourse.”
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