Lost in Math

Choice award for outstanding academic title
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