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Peter Woit

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#41

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#94

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#25

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Peter Woit's Degrees

PhD Particle Theory Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Woit is an American theoretical physicist. He is a senior lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Woit, a critic of string theory, has published a book Not Even Wrong and writes a blog of the same name.

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Peter Woit's Published Works

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Published Works

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (2006) (197)
Not even wrong : the failure of string theory and the continuing challenge to unify the laws of physics (2006) (117)
Topological Charge in Lattice Gauge Theory (1983) (79)
Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations (2017) (55)
Not Even Wrong (2006) (47)
An Introduction to the Standard Model (2017) (39)
Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction (under construction) (2016) (36)
Topology and Lattice Gauge Fields (1985) (35)
Lattice θ vacua (1984) (30)
String Theory: An Evaluation (2001) (18)
Topological susceptibility in SU(2) lattice gauge theory (1986) (17)
Topological susceptibility in SU(3) lattice gauge theory (1987) (12)
Supersymmetric quantum mechanics, spinors and the standard model (1988) (8)
Quantum Field Theory and Representation Theory: A Sketch (2002) (7)
SU(2) topological susceptibility at finite temperature (1986) (7)
Topological Quantum Theories and Representation Theory (1990) (4)
Euclidean Twistor Unification (2021) (3)
Representations of the Lorentz Group (2019) (3)
Is String Theory Even Wrong? (2002) (3)
Euclidean Spinors and Twistor Unification (2021) (2)
Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics and Physics (2015) (2)
Can topology solve the UA(1) problem in the real world (1989) (2)
String Theory and the Failure of Unification (2011) (1)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : The Heisenberg group and the Schrödinger Representation (2012) (1)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Representations of the Lorentz Group (2013) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians: The Harmonic Oscillator (2012) (0)
Coherent States and the Propagator for the Harmonic Oscillator (2017) (0)
Quadratic Polynomials and the Symplectic Group (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Clifford Algebras and the Fermionic Oscillator (2013) (0)
Anticommuting Variables and Pseudo-classical Mechanics (2017) (0)
Position and the Free Particle (2017) (0)
Lie Algebras and Lie Algebra Representations (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Angular Momentum and Central Potentials (2012) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : The Spin 12 Particle in a Magnetic Field (2012) (0)
The Harmonic Oscillator (2017) (0)
The Poisson Bracket and Symplectic Geometry (2017) (0)
Memorial for Robert Hermann (2021) (0)
Is Space-time Really Doomed? (2022) (0)
Symmetries and Non-relativistic Quantum Fields (2017) (0)
Two-state Systems and SU(2) (2017) (0)
Weyl and Clifford Algebras (2017) (0)
Momentum and the Free Particle (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Non-relativistic Quantum Field Theory (2013) (0)
The Group U(1) and its Representations (2017) (0)
Notes on BRST (2008) (0)
The Metaplectic Representation and Annihilation and Creation Operators, arbitrary d (2017) (0)
The Fermionic Oscillator (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Energy , Momentum , and the Quantum Free Particle (2012) (0)
Linear Algebra Review, Unitary and Orthogonal Groups (2017) (0)
Are We There Yet?: The Search for a Theory of Everything (2018) (0)
Fermionic Quantization and Spinors (2017) (0)
The Klein–Gordon Equation and Scalar Quantum Fields (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : The Poincaré Group and its Representations (2013) (0)
Notes on the Twistor $\mathbf P^1$ (2022) (0)
Quantization and Dirac Cohomology Under Construction (2020) (0)
The Metaplectic Representation and Annihilation and Creation Operators, $$d=1$$ (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Two-state systems and spin 1 / 2 (2012) (0)
Representations of Semi-direct Products (2017) (0)
Shelf life: Peter Woit (2006) (0)
Search for the ‘perfect’ theory (2017) (0)
Hyperfunctions and Imaginary Time Quantization Under Construction (2020) (0)
The Poincaré Group and its Representations (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Tensor Products , Entanglement , and Addition of Spin (2012) (0)
Minkowski Space and the Lorentz Group (2017) (0)
Grappling with Quantum Weirdness (2005) (0)
Theorists Without a Theory (2017) (0)
The Pauli Equation and the Dirac Operator (2017) (0)
The Quantum Free Particle as a Representation of the Euclidean Group (2017) (0)
The Dirac Equation and Spin $$\frac{1}{2}$$ Fields (2017) (0)
U (1) Gauge Symmetry and Electromagnetic Fields (2017) (0)
Hamiltonian Vector Fields and the Moment Map (2017) (0)
Multiparticle Systems and Field Quantization (2017) (0)
Lagrangian Methods and the Path Integral (2017) (0)
Supersymmetry, Some Simple Examples (2017) (0)
Clifford Algebras and Geometry (2017) (0)
BRST and Dirac Cohomology Preliminary Draft Version (2009) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Semidirect Products and Their Representations (2013) (0)
Quantization of Infinite dimensional Phase Spaces (2017) (0)
A Summary: Parallels Between Bosonic and Fermionic Quantization (2017) (0)
Fun with Fysiks (2011) (0)
Note Even Wrong - Living With Infinities (2009) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Anti-commuting Variables and Pseudo-classical Mechanics (2013) (0)
Semi-direct Products (2017) (0)
Representations of SU(2) and SO(3) (2017) (0)
Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012 (2012) (0)
Symmetries and Relativistic Scalar Quantum Fields (2017) (0)
Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field: the Photon (2017) (0)
Tensor Products, Entanglement, and Addition of Spin (2017) (0)
The Heisenberg group and the Schrödinger Representation (2017) (0)
Central Potentials and the Hydrogen Atom (2017) (0)
Twistor Geometry and the Standard Model in Euclidean Space Draft version (2020) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : The Rotation and Spin Groups in 3 and 4 Dimensions (2012) (0)
Multiparticle Systems: Momentum Space Description (2017) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Weyl and (2013) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Lie Algebras and Lie Algebra Representations (2012) (0)
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians : Clifford Algebras and Geometry (2013) (0)
Rotations and the Spin \(\frac{1}{2}\) Particle in a Magnetic Field (2017) (0)
The Rotation and Spin Groups in Three and Four Dimensions (2017) (0)
Complex Structures and Quantization (2017) (0)
Fourier Analysis and the Free Particle (2017) (0)

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Not Even Wrong: The failure of string theory and the search for unity in physical law

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