Tag: mathematics
“Fearless”: Princeton Mathematician Sergiu Klainerman on Berlinski’s Human Nature
“The man is fearless in pursuing lines of reasoning that are considered taboo by current standards.”
Listen: David Berlinski on His New Book, Human Nature
Is evolution carrying us upward to new heights of human goodness, as some have claimed?
Gelernter: Berlinski’s Human Nature Is “Number One” Book I’d Recommend to Yale Students
“Berlinski is a modern Hannah Arendt, but deeper, more illuminating, and wittier (i.e., smarter).”
Original, Incisive, Brilliant: Victor Davis Hanson on Berlinski’s Human Nature
“A brilliant indictment of scientific groupthink by an unapologetic intellectual dissident.”
Human Nature — New Book from David Berlinski Skewers Illusion of Evolutionary Progress in History
Berlinski schools Steven Pinker, the famed Harvard cognitive psychologist, on the relevant math, reminding him that “poorly defined problems very often lead to absurd solutions.”