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David Berlinski was born in the United States in 1942 to German-born Jewish refugees who had immigrated to New York City after escaping from France while the Vichy government was collaborating with the Germans. His father was Herman Berlinski, a composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor, and his mother was Sina Berlinski (née Goldfein), a pianist, piano teacher and voice coach. Both were born and raised in Leipzig where they studied at the Conservatory, before fleeing to Paris where they were married and undertook further studies. German was David Berlinski's first spoken language. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University.^[2]

Academic career

Berlinski received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University^[3]. He was later a postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology at Columbia University^[4]. He has taught philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford University, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Université de Paris. He was a research fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in France.

Author

Mathematics and biology

Berlinski has written works on systems analysis, the history of differential topology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics. Berlinski has authored books for the general public on mathematics and the history of mathematics. These include A Tour of the Calculus (1995) on calculus, The Advent of the Algorithm (2000) on algorithms, Newton's Gift (2000) on Isaac Newton, and Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics (2005). Another book, The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky (2003), compares astrological and evolutionary accounts of human behavior.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} In Black Mischief (1988), Berlinski wrote "Our paper became a monograph. When we had completed the details, we rewrote everything so that no one could tell how we came upon our ideas or why. This is the standard in mathematics."^[5]

Berlinski's books have received mixed reviews; Newton's Gift and The Advent of the Algorithm were criticized by MathSciNet for containing historical and mathematical inaccuracies^[6]^[7] while the Mathematical Association of America review of A Tour of the Calculus by

Collaborations

Berlinski, along with fellow Discovery Institute associates Michael Behe and William A. Dembski, tutored Ann Coulter on science and evolution for her book The Church of Liberalism (2006).^[9]

Berlinski was a longtime friend of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920–1996), with whom he collaborated on an unfinished and unpublished mathematically based manuscript that he described as being "devoted to the Darwinian theory of evolution".^[10] Berlinski dedicated The Advent of the Algorithm to Schützenberger.

Fiction

He is the author of several detective novels starring private investigator Aaron Asherfeld: A Clean Sweep (1993), Less Than Meets the Eye (1994) and The Body Shop (1996), and a number of shorter works of fiction and non-fiction.

Evolution

A critic of the theory of evolution, 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 intelligent design movement. Berlinski shares the movement's disbelief in the evidence for evolution, but does not openly avow intelligent design and describes his relationship with the idea as: "warm but distant. It's the same attitude that I display in public toward my ex-wives."^[1] Berlinski is a forthright critic of evolution, yet, "Unlike his colleagues at the Discovery Institute,...[he] refuses to theorize about the origin of life."^[1]

Berlinski appeared in the 2008 film No Intelligence Allowed, in which he told interviewer Ben Stein that

"Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one."^[11] He also says:

In his 1996 article, The Deniable Darwin, published in Commentary, Berlinski says he is skeptical of evolution for a number of reasons, claiming an appearance "at once" of an astonishing number of novel biological structures in the Cambrian explosion, a lack of major transitional fossils, a lack of recent significant evolution in sharks, the evolution of the eye, and a failure of evolutionary biology to explain various phenomena ranging from the sexual cannibalism of redback spiders to why women are not born with a tail.^[12] The article was described by science historian Ronald L. Numbers as "a version of ID theory".

Views on religion

Berlinski describes himself as a secular Jew.^[13] Berlinski's views towards criticism of religious belief can be found in his book The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (2008).^[13] In summary, he asserts that some skeptical arguments against religious belief based on scientific evidence misrepresent what the science is actually saying, that an objective morality requires a religious foundation, that mathematical theories attempting to bring together quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity amount to pseudoscience because of their lack of empirical verifiability, and he expresses doubt towards Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Personal life

Berlinski's daughter Claire Berlinski is a journalist and his son Mischa Berlinski is a writer.

Bibliography

Non-fiction books

Fiction books

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Articles in journals and newspapers

Notes

1. ^¹²{{cite journal |last=Engber |first=Daniel |date=April 15, 2008 |title=A Crank's Progress |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2189178/entry/2189179/ |journal=Slate |series=The Paranoid Style in American Science |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420082802/http://www.slate.com/id/2189178/entry/2189179/ |archivedate=2008-04-20 |accessdate=2014-01-10}}
2. ^Berlinski 1968
3. ^Berlinski 1968
4. ^Berlinski 1972
5. ^Berlinski 1988, p. 167
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/publdoc.html?arg3=&co4=AND&co5=AND&co6=AND&co7=AND&dr=all&pg4=AUCN&pg5=TI&pg6=PC&pg7=ALLF&pg8=ET&review_format=html&s4=Berlinski&s5=&s6=&s7=&s8=All&vfpref=html&yearRangeFirst=&yearRangeSecond=&yrop=eq&r=1&mx-pid=1815707 |title=MR: Search Publications database |website=MathSciNet |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, RI }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Database search for MR1815707: Newton's Gift by Berlinski. Subscription required.
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/publdoc.html?arg3=&co4=AND&co5=AND&co6=AND&co7=AND&dr=all&pg4=AUCN&pg5=TI&pg6=PC&pg7=ALLF&pg8=ET&review_format=html&s4=Berlinski&s5=&s6=&s7=&s8=All&vfpref=html&yearRangeFirst=&yearRangeSecond=&yrop=eq&r=2&mx-pid=1766416 |title=MR: Search Publications database |website=MathSciNet |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, RI }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Database search for MR1766416: The Advent of the Algorithm by Berlinski. Subscription required.
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-tour-of-the-calculus |title=A Tour of the Calculus |last=Gouvêa |first=Fernando Q. |authorlink= Fernando Q. Gouvêa |date=January 1, 1996 |website=Mathematical Association of America |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |location=Washington, D.C. |type=Book review |accessdate=2014-01-17}}
9. ^Coulter 2007, p. 319: "I couldn't have written about evolution without the generous tutoring of Michael Behe, David Berlinski, and William Dembski, all of whom are fabulous at translating complex ideas, unlike liberal arts types, who constantly force me to the dictionary to relearn the meaning of quotidian."
10. ^{{cite journal |last=Wilf |first=Herbert S. |authorlink=Herbert Wilf |year=1996 |title=Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920-1996) |url=http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v3i1f1/html |journal=Electronic Journal of Combinatorics |volume=3 |issue=1 |issn=1077-8926 |accessdate=2014-01-17}} Synopsis: "A memorial page for Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, with contributions from Herbert Wilf, Dominique Foata, David Berlinski, Dominique Perrin, Richard Askey and Moshé Flato."
11. ^¹{{cite AV media |people=Frankowski, Nathan (Director) |date=April 18, 2008 |title=No Intelligence Allowed |medium=Motion picture |publisher=Premise Media Corporation}}
12. ^Berlinski 1996b
13. ^¹Berlinski 2009a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pPCYCl5m4UsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22David+Berlinski%22+secular+jew#v=onepage&q=%20secular%20jew&f=false p. xiii]

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