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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics Paperback – 7 Jun. 2007

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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 ―
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Compulsive reading -- Roger Penrose

It's a call to arms ―
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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (7 Jun. 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099488647
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099488644
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.91 x 20.07 cm
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