{"id":6442,"date":"2013-11-27T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:03:09","slug":"quantum-mechanics-and-representation-theory-talk-and-book-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6442","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mechanics and Representation Theory: talk and book progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I gave a colloquium talk at the Texas Tech math department, slides are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/woit-texastech.pdf\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested.  One motivation for the talk was to advertise the book project I&#8217;m working on, which gives a lot more detail about these topics if you find something interesting in the slides.<\/p>\n<p>The current state of the book is visible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/qmbook.pdf\">here<\/a>.  There are 31 chapters done, about another 5 to go.  I also need to go through the entire thing again and reconcile various choices of convention that currently are not necessarily consistent.  I plan to get back to work on this in a couple weeks after fall classes are over here, have something like a finished draft of a book done around February.  The next project will be to get back to what I was writing long ago on Dirac cohomology and make some more progress with that.<\/p>\n<p>For the next few days though, will be taking it easy, and eating turkey. Happy Thanksgiving to all!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  The volume of the Feynman Lectures on Physics devoted to quantum mechanics is now available freely online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feynmanlectures.info\/docroot\/III_toc.html\">here<\/a>. This is a masterful introduction to QM from the perspective of a great physicist.  What I&#8217;ve been writing in some sense is intended to function best as a supplement to this and an explanation of how it is related to some basic concepts in mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I gave a colloquium talk at the Texas Tech math department, slides are here if you&#8217;re interested. One motivation for the talk was to advertise the book project I&#8217;m working on, which gives a lot more detail about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=6442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-theory-the-book"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6446,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}