Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions, as opposed to experimental processes, in an attempt to understand Nature. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Graph of a differential equation In mathematics, a differential equation is an equation in which the derivatives of a function appear as variables. ...

He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense with Alan Sokal. Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of Science (French: Impostures Intellectuelles, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) is a book by professors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. ... Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a physicist at New York University. ... Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (b. ... Progressive can refer to: Progressive music, including Progressive rock, Progressive metal and Progressive electronica Political Progressivism Several Progressive Parties Progressive Era in the United States (1890-1913) Progressive, a company providing auto insurance The Progressive, a left-wing monthly magazine The progressive tense in grammar Progressive lenses, used to correct...

In 2005 he published Impérialisme humanitaire. Droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort ? [1]- Aden.

In 2006, he wrote the préface of L'Atlas alternatif - Frédéric Delorca (ed), Pantin, Temps des Cerises [2].