Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
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- Born in
- Boston
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPrinceton UniversityHarvard College
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Arthur Wightman
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jose Soria📖 Robert Edwards
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1955
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