Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she studies the phenomenology of quantum gravity. She has published more than fifty research articles on physics, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. She resides in Frankfurt, Germany.
"Lost in Math is a delight. It is engaging, witty, and utterly
profound. If you want to know why so many contemporary theoretical
physicists choose to believe unbelievable things, this is a great
place to start."--Jim Baggott, author of Farewell to Reality
"Lost in Math is self-aware and dosed with acerbic wit, and it asks
bold questions."--Nature
"[A] provocative new book."--New York Times
"[Hossenfelder's] critical assessment of the field is appropriately
timed." --Science
"According to the physicist and prolific blogger Sabine
Hossenfelder, Einstein and others who work in a similar way are
'lost in math, ' the title of her lively and provocative
book."--Wall Street Journal
"Born too late to savor the heady era when the standard model of
particle physics came together, Sabine Hossenfelder is impatient
for new waves of discovery. Might the pace of insights be slowing
because illusions of mathematical beauty have beguiled her fellow
theorists? Lost in Math chronicles her quest--through interviews
and conversations--to set her own course for exploration."--Chris
Quigg, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
"Centered around insightful interviews with leading theorists, Lost
in Math provides a well-informed take on the current state of
fundamental physical theory, from a physicist who is utterly
fearless, completely honest, and quite funny."--Peter Woit,
mathematical physicist at Columbia University and author of Not
Even Wrong
"Eavesdrop on accessible and frank conversations in Hossenfelder's
Lost in Math, which wrestles with big questions of quantum
mechanics and beauty in a fun, fascinating way."--Popular
Science
"Emphasizing how much researchers have achieved in quantum
mechanics while using math that is decidedly ugly, Hossenfelder
urges her colleagues to start focusing on reality, not conceptual
style. A provocative appeal for unattractive but fruitful
science."--Booklist
"Entertaining and engaging."--Ars Technica
"Even educated readers will struggle to understand the elements of
modern physics, but they will have no trouble enjoying this
insightful, delightfully pugnacious polemic about its leading
controversy."--Kirkus (starred review)
"Hossenfelder ably mixes simplified explanation of the science with
compelling portraits of the fascinating characters who study
it."--Vanity Fair
"Hossenfelder, a philosophically inclined physicist, presents the
informed reader with a fascinating panorama of the current state of
physics, replete with imaginative entities like wormholes, parallel
universes, and bubbles associated with the baby universe whose
existence cannot be established or falsified through standard
experimental modes."--CHOICE
"Hossenfelder's jaunt through the world of theoretical physics
explicitly raises the question of whether the activities of
thousands of physicists should actually count as 'science.' And if
not, then what in tarnation are they doing?"--Weekly Standard
(UK)
"In her new book, Lost In Math, Sabine Hossenfelder adroitly
confronts this crisis head on.... The book is a wild, deep,
thought-provoking read that would make any reasonable person in the
field who's still capable of introspection doubt
themselves."--Forbes
"Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Lost in Math provides a
well-informed take on the current situation in fundamental physical
theory. The author is completely honest, utterly fearless, and
often quite funny."--MAA Reviews
"This layreader-friendly, amusing treatise gives an enlightening
look at a growing issue within physics."--Publishers Weekly
Choice award for outstanding academic title
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