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.