No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Tanning to page block, dusted to top edge. Clean and unclipped dust jacket, light creasing to top, short tear to front bottom corner (approx. 0.5cm). Black cloth with bright silver titling to the spine. Boards clean and sharp. xiii, 290pp. Early misgivings about string-theory hegemony ("authoritative and well-reasoned.an important book" - Roger Penrose.). Seller Inventory # 2046

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Title: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory...

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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How does the world work and what is mathematics’ role in its description? An authoritative and well-reasoned account of string theory’s fashionable status among today’s theoretical physicists, and promising new directions, including the role of beauty in mathematics and physics.

About the Author:

Peter Woit is a physicist and mathematician who is currently a Lecturer in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University. He graduated in 1979 from Harvard University with bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, then went on to get a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University. He has been a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook and at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. Since 1989 he has been teaching at Columbia where in recent years he has taught graduate courses in quantum field theory, representation theory and differential geometry.

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