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Jean Bricmont
Researcher at Université catholique de Louvain
Publications - 148
Citations - 5025
Jean Bricmont is an academic researcher from Université catholique de Louvain. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ising model & Nonlinear system. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 136 publications receiving 4797 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean Bricmont include Virginia Tech & Catholic University of Leuven.
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
TL;DR: Sokal and Bricmont as mentioned in this paper expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers, from Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard.
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Lower critical dimension for the random-field Ising model.
Jean Bricmont,Antti Kupiainen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the Ising model with a small random magnetic field has two phases at low temperatures, i.e., its lower critical dimension is at most two.
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Intellectual impostures : postmodern philosopher's abuse of science
Alan D. Sokal,Jean Bricmont +1 more
TL;DR: When it was published in France, this book socked the philosophes of the Left Bank with its plain-speak ing attack on some of France''s greatest minds.
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Renormalization Group and Asymptotics of Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations
TL;DR: In this paper, a general method for studying long-time asymptotics of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations is presented, which applies to systems of coupled equations, to boundary conditions at infinity creating a front, and to higher (possibly fractional) differential linear terms.
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Science of chaos or chaos in science
TL;DR: In this article, several confusions in the popular literature concerning chaos, determinism, the arrow of time, entropy and the role of probability in physics are explained and defended while some recent views on irreversibility, due to Prigogine, are criticized.