User:Quacksalber
Interests
Pre-enlightenment precursors of the scientific method.
Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, Neopaganism
Renaissance and Baroque men of ideas:
Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Athanasius Kircher, René Descartes.
Carl Jung. Applied Psychology and Ergonomics. Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind. Human Factors and the Human-Computer Interface (HCI).
Aristotelian versus Boolean logic. The epistemology of statistics, from Pascal & Fisher onwards. Probability theory, Information theory. Bayesian statistics, Bayesian nets applied to decision making. Statistical Decision Theory.
Quantum theory, wave mechanics, quantum computing.
Science fiction and creative writing.
Writes novels and short stories as Clark Nida.
Sample publications
The Door Out of Hell, 2nd Edition, Undead Tree Publications, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1-898728-15-3}}
The Titan Kiss, 2nd Edition, Undead Tree Publications, 2016, {{ISBN|978-1-898728-37-5}}
''The Killer App – how to make millions with ground-breaking software". http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Ian_Clark/KillerApp
How To Rig An Election. http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10002460
Website
http://whitbywriters.com
Qualifications
PhD (Pure Mathematics), University of Keele, 1973. The Construction of Finite Factorisable Groups.
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