David Berlinski Audio & Video

A debate was held on atheism with Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, and David Berlinski, author of The Devil's Delusion.

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, David Berlinski, a mathematician, philosopher, and biologist, discusses the current state of the scientific community…

David Berlinski is the author of a number of books, including the recent volumes One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics and The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.

From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world....

Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run.

Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall.

Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion....