John Allen Poulos and Malcolm Gladwell are two of my favorite writers. Both of them are attempting to bridge the gap in the general public's understanding of the principles of mathematics.

"Bulletin! An exhaustive Wall Street study has revealed that 62.381527% of all statistics are made up on the spot." This humorous opening of the home page of John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, says much about the man. I discovered his work through his first-of-the-month column "Who's Counting?" on the ABC News website. His book, "A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper," will forever change anyone's view of the so-called "news."

Malcom Gladwell came to my attention with the runaway success of his book "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." This influential book is simultaneously sobering and encouraging. That alone would be enough for any writer to achieve, but add to that the fact that he does it over and over again in his columns in the New Yorker magazine. Check out his article "Java Man: How caffeine created the modern world," for a taste of how his research and ideas lead to a new understanding.

I'm hopeful that these two writers are planting the seeds for a quiet new mathematics revolution.

Favorites: John Robb's The New Economy -II * Wired's New Economy Myth * Michael Moore * Probability Without Tears * John F. Simon Jr.'s Every Icon * Law of Diminishing Returns * Patently Absurd * Sir Arthur C. Clarke * W. Daniel Hillis * Claude E. Shannon -2 * The New York Times * The Buckminster Fuller Institute * Chautauqua * LuLu Press * Dan Bricklin * William Dunk