Talk:Paul Hoffman (science writer)

Is it the same Paul Hoffman?

Are these books written by the same Paul Hoffman as described below?

The Critical Edition of Q: A Synopsis Including the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Mark and Thomas with English, German, and French Translations of Q and Thomas, edited by James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, and John S. Kloppenborg, Managing Editor Milton C. Moreland. Minneapolis: Fortress, and Leuven: Peeters, 2000.

The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English: With Parallels from the Gospels of Mark and Thomas, edited by James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, John S. Kloppenborg; managing editor, Milton C. Moreland. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002.

El Documento Q: The Saying Gospel Q in Greek and English by Paul Hoffmann (Author); John S. Kloppenborg (Author); James M. Robinson (Author) Item No: 9788430114641 Release Date: Sunday, September 1, 2002 Format: Hardcover Availability: In stock, usually ships within 24 hours. Eligible for Free Shipping on orders over $150. Details Online Price: $28.00

Why I Am a Christian: Leading Thinkers Explain Why They Believe (Hardcover) by Norman L. Geisler (Editor), Paul K. Hoffman (Editor)

Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse is a 1984 illustrated book and accompanying video by Sheldon Renan published in the United States by Warner Books (ISBN 0-446-38160-8). The book was designed and promoted as a contest, in which readers attempted to solve the elaborate puzzle contained in the book's story to find the location of real 1 kilogram golden horse buried in a box somewhere on public land within the continental United States. The puzzle was designed by puzzlemaster Dr. Crypton (Paul Hoffman) and was considered extremely difficult. The first reader to solve the puzzle and dig up the horse by the deadline of May 26, 1989 would get to keep the horse and would receive $500,000. The solution was designed to be available either by reading the book or watching the video independently. The video, which starred Dory Dean and Elisha Cook Jr. and was narrated by Richard Lynch was available on VHS and aired on cable television, but was designed especially with the Capacitance Electronic Disc format in mind, which allowed one to shuffle through the film similarly to laserdisc and DVD in order to hunt for clues.

The deadline for the puzzle passed without any reader having solved it, and the horse was dug up by the promoters and donated to charity (Big Brothers Big Sisters of America). After the deadline, Hoffman declined to publicize the solution, however, and many readers continued to attempt to solve it after the deadline. Rumors circulated among the puzzle-solving community that a second silver horse had been placed in the location of the original horse, in conjunction with an unproduced Colecovision game. Seven months later, Nick Boone and Anthony Castaneda, having arrived at a solution, went to Tennessee Pass in Colorado and dug up a vial on National Forest Service land that contained a congratulatory message. In the following years, the area in the vicinity of the pass summit has been ransacked by other visitors in an attempt to unearth the supposed second silver horse or any other artifact of the contest.

PAUL HOFFMAN

Paul has been president and editor-in-chief of Discover magazine, the country's largest science monthly, since 1987. Paul was a special science correspondent for Good Morning America and has appeared on CNN,ABC News, and The Charlie Rose Show. He has written for many national magazines, including The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine,Smithsonian, and Business Week, and was the first winner of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. He has written ten books, including Archimedes's Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics. Paul lives in New York City.

Also ...

Paul Hoffman is the publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica. He is also the host of the five-part PBS series "Great Minds of Science"and a frequent commentator on television shows such as "CBS This Morning," "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,"CNN news, and "Inside Space." For ten years, Hoffman was president and editor-in-chief of Discover magazine.He is the author of ten books, including Archimedes' Revenge:The Joys and Perils of Mathematics. A recovered chess addict and current cooking fanatic, he lives in Chicago, Illinois, and Woodstock, New York with his wife Ann Braybrooks, who writes children's books.

Paul Hoffman interviewed Erdös over the last ten years of his life and followed him on mathematical sojourns. Hoffman's November 1987 profile of Erdös in The Atlantic Monthly, "The Man Who Loves Only Numbers,"won the National Magazine Award for feature writing, the most prestigious award in American magazine publishing.--Markisgreen 01:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Not the same Paul Hoffman

Just to say that the the American Paul Hoffman is different from the Paul Hoffman who has just written the novel 'The Golden Age of Censorship' (2007). This latter writer is British and used to work for the British Board of Film Classification. Colin4C 18:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC

I think he went to HARVARD not Chicago

The Left Hand of God

I think this is also from the British Paul Hoffman (see above) and removed it from the list. If I'm wrong please cite a source. Also I think The Wisdom of Crocodiles belongs to the britisch one. --Fano (talk) 21:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

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