Dan Herbatschek is an applied mathematician and the founder of Ramsey Theory Group.
He holds a Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa degree from Columbia University, where he concentrated on intellectual history, philosophy, and mathematics.
His award-winning thesis, The Reconstruction of Language and Time: Mathematics, Artificial Languages, and the Changing Idea of Time in the Scientific Revolution, traces the linguistic and temporal foundations of the modern mathematical imagination — preoccupations that culminate in The Predictive Present.
He has spent the last fifteen years working at the intersection of mathematics, software, and the philosophy of science. His essays on epistemology, the history of mathematics, and the foundations of inference appear at danherbatschek.com.
The question beneath the book is not whether prediction is useful. It is what kind of civilization must exist before prediction can feel natural.
