Alan Sokal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alan Sokal

American physicist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1955

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.