Question: What professor of mathematics authored the book Fashionable Nonsense?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: "Impostures Intellectuelles" ), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to "Social Text", a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Alan David Sokal ( ; born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is best known to the wider public for his criticism of postmodernism, after the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's "Social Text". He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology. [END]  
Answer: Alan Sokal
Alan Sokal