{"id":8844,"date":"2016-10-24T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:46:36","slug":"final-draft-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8844","title":{"rendered":"Final Draft Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have finished a draft version of the book that I&#8217;ve been working on for the past four years or so. This version will remain freely available on my website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QM\/qmbook.pdf\">here<\/a>. The plan is to get professional illustrations done and have the book published by Springer, presumably appearing in print sometime next year.  By now it&#8217;s too late for any significant changes, but comments, especially corrections and typos, are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I&#8217;m very happy with how the book has turned out, since I think it provides a valuable point of view on the relation between quantum mechanics and mathematics, and contains significant amounts of material not well-explained elsewhere.  I&#8217;m simultaneously rather unhappy with it, very much aware of a long list of ways in which it could be improved.  Any of these though would require putting more time into the project, and right now I&#8217;m thoroughly sick of it, desperately wanting to think about other things.  So, this is pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a huge amount by writing this, and I hope to apply some of this in work on several different new projects.  As I work on these, perhaps I&#8217;ll do some more writing that would partially take the form of new chapters extending what&#8217;s in the book.  We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have finished a draft version of the book that I&#8217;ve been working on for the past four years or so. This version will remain freely available on my website here. The plan is to get professional illustrations done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8844\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8844","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\/8844","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=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8850,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions\/8850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}