Alan Sokal
Also known as Alan David Sokal, Alan D.Sokal, Alan D Sokal, Alan D. Sokal
American physicist and mathematician
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- 1955
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- Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
- Beyond the Hoax
- Lattice Paths and Branched Continued Fractions
- Şakanın Ardından
- Intellectual Impostures
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Alan David Sokal (/ˈsoʊkəl/ SOH-kəl; 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 with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
Sokal 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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