{"id":9712,"date":"2017-11-11T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2017-11-11T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T02:25:54","slug":"quantum-theory-groups-and-representations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9712","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was away last week on vacation, it seems that Springer has published my book on quantum mechanics and representation theory (previously discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?cat=24\">various blog posts<\/a>).  The Springer page is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-64612-1\">here<\/a>, your institution may provide access to the content (and a $24.99 MyCopy softcover) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-64612-1\">Springer Link page for the book<\/a>. I&#8217;ve retained copyright for the content of the book and a version with essentially the same content as the Springer version is available from my website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/QM\/qmbook.pdf\">here<\/a>.   The Springer version has their formatting, copy-editing and metadata.  The Amazon webpage for the book (if you&#8217;re in the mood to write a review there, feel free) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3319646109\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet seen a physical copy of the book, don&#8217;t know how long it will take for them to start printing copies. From people at Springer I learned last year that they no longer print and store copies of such books, they&#8217;re now always printed on demand (with the quality of the printing dependent on where you order your book from, German printers are quite good I hear..).<\/p>\n<p>Just before leaving on vacation, I gave an introductory talk on some of the themes of the book at LaGuardia Community College (slides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/laguardia.pdf\">here<\/a>).  This week I&#8217;ll be giving a similar talk at a math department colloquium at Queensborough Community College this Wednesday (1 pm, Science building, S-213).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was away last week on vacation, it seems that Springer has published my book on quantum mechanics and representation theory (previously discussed in various blog posts). The Springer page is here, your institution may provide access to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9712\">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-9712","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\/9712","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=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}