Alan Sokal
American physicist and mathematician (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alan David Sokal (/ˈsoʊkəl/; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. He also co-authored a paper criticizing the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
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Alan Sokal | |
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Born | (1955-01-24) January 24, 1955 (age 69) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (B.A.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Sokal Affair |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics, mathematics, philosophy of science |
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Thesis | An Alternate Constructive Approach to the φ4 3 Quantum Field Theory, and a Possible Destructive Approach to φ4 4 (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Wightman |
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