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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

Woit, Peter

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2006
ISBN 10: 0224076051 / ISBN 13: 9780224076050
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Synopsis: 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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Title: Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory...
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new