David Berlinski is a philosopher, mathematician, and author known for his writings on science, mathematics, and their cultural implications. He has authored several books, including 'A Tour of the Calculus' and 'The Devil's Delusion,' and is a prominent skeptic of Darwinian evolution. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard exploring the intersections of physics, philosophy, and intellectual history.
Genes, Girls, and Gamow After the Double Helix by James D. Watson Knopf, 304 pp., $26 A DOCTORATE from Indiana University in 1949, the Cavendish laboratories at Cambridge University, the discovery of DNA. Thereafter, immortality. James Watson has plainly come to regard his life as a sign of grace.…
The God Hypothesis Discovering Design in our "Just Right" Goldilocks Universe by Michael A. Corey Rowman & Littlefield, 256 pp., $27 GOD'S EXISTENCE is not required by the premises of quantum mechanics or general relativity, the great theories of twentieth-century physics --but then again, it is…
Memoirs A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller Perseus, 544 pp., $35 EDWARD TELLER has undertaken, at the age of ninety-three, to tell the story of his life. In conducting an exercise of this sort, most men find much to admire, but little to censure in themselves. An…