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David Berlinski
American educator and author · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 84
David Berlinski is an American mathematician and philosopher. He has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction.
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1995“A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.”In their wordsA Note to the Reader (p. xvi)“Then he said what I knew - what I had always known - he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say.“Remember me.”In their wordsChapter 15, “Prague Interlude” (p. 149)“The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life.”In their wordsChapter 16, “Memory of Motion” (p. 165)“It is here, at this very moment when the first utterly trivial differential equation is solved, that the secret form of words is revealed that makes modern science possible.”In their wordsChapter 20, “The Song of Igor” (p. 230)“Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”In their wordsChapter 24, “The Integral Wishes to Become a Function” (p. 281; quoting Alonzo Church)“I have written this book in isolation, hardly talking to a soul, but unoppressed as well by campus codes or creeds, free to say what I want and when I want.”In their wordsAcknowledgments (p. 313)1942Born
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An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization that promotes the pseudoscientific idea of intelligent design.
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Born 1942 · age 84
