{"id":9395,"date":"2017-06-14T21:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2017-06-15T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T00:19:33","slug":"this-time-its-really-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9395","title":{"rendered":"This Time It&#8217;s Really for Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice now I&#8217;ve thought I had a finished version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QMbook\/qmbook.pdf\">book I&#8217;ve been writing forever<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8844\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9180\">here<\/a>).  Each time it turned out that, the way the publishing process was going, I ended up having more time to work on the manuscript and deciding I could do better, especially with some of the basic material about quantum field theory.  I do think the latest version has a much improved treatment of the basics of that subject.<\/p>\n<p>This version will go off to Springer in a day or so, and they plan to publish it late this year\/early next year. I&#8217;m setting up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QMbook\">web-page for the book<\/a>, there may be more material there later.<\/p>\n<p>One thing ensuring that I will stop working on this is that in a couple days I&#8217;m heading off on vacation, for a two-week or so trip to Europe. Blogging during that time is likely to be light to non-existent. Back around the Fourth of July, and looking forward to thinking about other projects, anything but this book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: If you&#8217;re wondering why the document length changed today, no change in content, just a minor change (improvement) in formatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice now I&#8217;ve thought I had a finished version of the book I&#8217;ve been writing forever (see here and here). Each time it turned out that, the way the publishing process was going, I ended up having more time to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9395\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9395","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\/9395","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=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}