David Berlinski was born on 1942 and is an American author who has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction.
11 Facts About David Berlinski
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David Berlinski was born in the United States in 1942 to German-born Jewish refugees who had emigrated to New York City after escaping from France while the Vichy government was collaborating with the Germans.
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David Berlinski's father was Herman Berlinski, a composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor, and his mother was Sina Berlinski, a pianist, piano teacher and voice coach.
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David Berlinski earned his BA from Columbia University and PhD in philosophy from Princeton University.
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David Berlinski has taught philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford University, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Universite de Paris.
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David Berlinski was a research fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France.
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David Berlinski has written works on systems analysis, the history of differential topology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics.
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David Berlinski has authored books for the general public on mathematics and the history of mathematics.
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David Berlinski was a longtime friend of Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, with whom he collaborated on an unfinished and unpublished mathematically based manuscript that he described as being "devoted to the Darwinian theory of evolution".
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David Berlinski is the author of several detective novels featuring private investigator Aaron Asherfeld: A Clean Sweep, Less Than Meets the Eye and The Body Shop, and a number of shorter works of fiction and non-fiction.
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An opponent of biological evolution, David Berlinski is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, a Seattle-based think tank that is a hub of the pseudoscientific intelligent design movement.