Prof. Hoodbhoy: Pakistan is not a normal country. It has been declining in the education of science.

Описание: Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy is Pakistan's foremost public intellectual. Born in Karachi, he studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for nine years, where he received degrees in electrical engineering, mathematics and solid-state physics, eventually leading to a PhD in nuclear physics. In 1981, he went on to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of Washington, before leaving to serve as a visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in 1985.
While still a professor at the Quaid-i-Azam University, he worked as a guest scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics from 1986 to 1994. He remained with the Quaid-e-Azam University until 2010, throughout which he held visiting professorships at MIT, University of Maryland and Stanford Linear Collider.
He is the author of these books:
Education and the State: Fifty Years Of Pakistan Oxford University Press, 1998.
Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality Zed Books, London, 1992. It has been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Malaysian, Turkish, Japanese, and Urdu.
Proceedings of the School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology World Scientific, Singapore, 1991. (He co-edited with A. Ali.)
"Rewriting the History of Pakistan", in Islam, Politics and the State: The Pakistan Experience, Ed. Mohammad Asghar Khan, Zed Books, London, 1986. (He co-authored it with A. H. Nayyar.)
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