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Fashionable Nonsense
In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine "Social Text" parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here, Sokal teams …
Intellectual Impostures
When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain, it provoked impassioned debate. …
Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory
Simple random walks - or equivalently, sums of independent random vari ables - have long been a standard topic of probability theory and mathemat ical physics. In the 1950s, …
Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory
Simple random walks - or equivalently, sums of independent random vari- ables - have long been a standard topic of probability theory and mathemat- ical physics. In the 1950s, …
Beyond the Hoax
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a …
Lattice Paths and Branched Continued Fractions
Superstition supérieure
Superstition sup rieure: La gauche universitaire et ses querelles avec la science est l'oeuvre de deux scientifiques de gauche inquiets de la direction prise par la vie …
Impostures intellectuelles
Au printemps 1996, une revue américaine fort respectée -- Social Text -- publiait un article au titre étrange : " Transgresser les frontières : vers une herméneutique …
Beyond the Hoax
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a …