David Berlinski
David Berlinski | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 82–83) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | A Tour of the Calculus (1995) |
| Spouse | Toby Saks |
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| Father | Herman Berlinski |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Systems analysis Analytical philosophy |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | The Well-tempered Wittgenstein (1968) |
| Website | www.davidberlinski.org |
David Berlinski (born 1942) 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. Berlinski professes to be a skeptic about evolution, but he disavows belief in intelligent design.