… Physicists are looking for elegant theories to prove the real world instead of working backwards from the data. But, in . She’s one hell of a writer and her dry humor and down to earth principles made this book a joy to read.reads like a Mary Roach book about particle physics -- altogether too many "human interest physics" elements, including descriptions of one interviewee's cats ("Astrokate", apparently a ...twitter authority). The author is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. However, she also extends the analysis to other fields, most notably to contemporary academic economics, which she clams is in even worse shape from a rational perspective than her own field (pp. She's asked them questions and she reports their answers. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. In regard to those arguments, Hossenfelder's voice was razor sharp, clear, unafraid, questioning, critical, and informative. Hossenfelder makes no useful suggestions, instead just dumping on people when she's not flying to Hawaii. Some arguments were extremely worthwhile and needed a voice. The writer Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist whose job is to create new theories and leave the mathematical stuff to the mathematicians.

The writer Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist whose job is to create new theories and leave the mathematical stuff to the mathematicians. It is something that touches some internal chord. The author focuses on certain areas of theoretical physics, which is her specialty. She's talked with a bunch of people, some of them major stars of the physics world. The book is about the abuse of mathematics while pretending to do science. The author focuses on certain areas of theoretical physics, which is her specialty.

She's written this book to tell you why she's mad, and what she's done to try and find out what went wrong. In the very readable Lost in Math, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder exposes the way that in certain areas of physics, this is all too realistic a picture. In her book Hossenfelder talks about what has gone wrong with her subject in the last thirty years or so.Lost in Math is a great and well written summary about the way physics is represented in the modern days. Add Favorite.

In her book Hossenfelder talks about what has gone wrong with her subject in the last thirty years or so.I could not finish this book. 224-26). I love having my beliefs challenged. Physicists are hooked on various definitions of simplicity, involving fewer mathematical terms and especially fewer "magic constants" or "voodoo constants" (as we would call them computer systems).This was one of the funniest, snarkiest, most straight-forward books about what the future of physics is - and isn't - that I've ever read. I couldn't disagree with her central thesis -- leaning hard on "beautiful math" is no substitute for testabilityreads like a Mary Roach book about particle physics -- altogether too many "human interest physics" elements, including descriptions of one interviewee's cats ("Astrokate", apparently a ...twitter authority). She criticized them for being guided by beauty. The book is a series of interviews with well-known physicists.

(Hossenfelder gives Hoyle's cosmological theory short shrift, incidentally, though, to be fair, it wasn't given anywhere near as many opportunities to be patched up to match observations as the current version of big bang with inflation. She builds a case of how science fails to self-correct itself and set about proving a theory. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group.“There are other reasons we use math in physics.