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Not Even Wrong
Peter Woit
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Description for Not Even Wrong
Paperback. Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there is: how does the world work at the most fundamental level and what is the role of mathematics in its description? It considers what the role of beauty may be in mathematics and physics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: PB; PDZ; PHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?
The book begins with an historical survey of the experimental and theoretical developments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful 'Standard Model' of particle physics around 1975. Despite its successes, the Standard Model does not answer all the key questions and physicists continuing search for answers led to the development of superstring theory. However, after twenty years, superstring theory has failed to advance beyond ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099488644
SKU
V9780099488644
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About Peter Woit
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Not Even Wrong
Highly readable, accessible and powerfully persuasive
John Cornwell
Sunday Times
Will embolden other string critics to speak up and encourage talented young physicists to pursue other lines of research
John Horgan
Prospect
Compulsive reading
Roger Penrose It's a call to arms
New Scientist
John Cornwell
Sunday Times
Will embolden other string critics to speak up and encourage talented young physicists to pursue other lines of research
John Horgan
Prospect
Compulsive reading
Roger Penrose It's a call to arms
New Scientist