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David Berlinski

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American educator and author

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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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David Berlinski
said · 1995
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A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.

A Note to the Reader (p. xvi)

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David Berlinski
said · 1995
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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.

Chapter 15, “Prague Interlude” (p. 149)

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David Berlinski
said · 1995
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The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life.

Chapter 16, “Memory of Motion” (p. 165)

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David Berlinski is an American mathematician and philosopher. He has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. 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
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