Peter Woit
Columbia mathematician and string-theory critic; author of Not Even Wrong, book and blog.
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- Peter Woit is an American mathematical physicist and a senior lecturer in the mathematics department at Columbia University.
- He criticises string theory for making no testable predictions, in his 2006 book Not Even Wrong and in a long-running blog of the same name.
- He also wrote the textbook Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations (2017).
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- Born
- 11 September 19571
- Columbia
- Senior lecturer, mathematics department, after four years as an assistant professor there1
- Books
- Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics (2006); Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations (Springer, 2017)1
- Education
- Harvard, bachelor's and master's in physics (1979); PhD in particle physics, Princeton (1985)1
- Before
- Postdoctoral work at Stony Brook and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley1
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- Lee Smolin
their 2006 books set off "the string wars" 1
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