{"id":11944,"date":"2020-08-21T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=11944"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:10:17","slug":"are-you-going-to-write-a-second-book","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?faq=are-you-going-to-write-a-second-book","title":{"rendered":"Are you going to write a second book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No plans to do so right now, and if I ever do, it would be a very different kind of book than the first.  In that book I put pretty much all I have to say to a general audience, and not much has changed over the past decade since it was written.<\/p>\n<p>A book that doesn&#8217;t seem to exist that I&#8217;d like to work on would be something along the lines an advanced undergraduate to graduate level textbook on topics in mathematics and quantum theory.  Maybe someday I&#8217;ll find time and opportunity to start that project, but not this semester&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, summer 2013<\/strong>:  I have been writing a book on quantum mechanics from the point of view of representation theory, the latest version is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QM\/qmbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The new book will be published by Springer, publication date is December 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The book has been published, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QMbook\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","faq_groups":[],"class_list":["post-11944","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffaq_groups&post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}