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Jan 24, 1955 Boston, Massachusetts, United States 69 years old
American physicist and mathematician
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About Alan Sokal
- Alan David Sokal (; born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University.
- He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
- He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's Social Text.
- He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
