Peter Woit | |
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Born | September 11, 1957 |
Nationality | American, Latvian |
Education | Harvard University (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | Curtis Callan[1] |
Website | math |
Peter Woit (/ˈwɔɪt/; born September 11, 1957) is a Latvian-American mathematician who works in Geometric Langlands and Twistor theory. He works in the mathematics department at Columbia University. Woit, a critic of string theory, has published a book Not Even Wrong (2006) and writes a blog of the same name.[2]