Reviews, Interviews, Excerpts
Reviews:
- Publishers Weekly: “This layreader-friendly, amusing treatise gives an enlightening look at a growing issue within physics.”
- Kirkus Review (starred): “A theoretical physicist delivers an entertaining attack on her profession, arguing that it has fallen in love with theories that bear little relation to reality.”
- Anil Ananthaswamy for Nature: “Lost in Math is self-aware and dosed with acerbic wit, and it asks bold questions.”
- Gaia Donati for Nature Physics: “both refreshing and engaging.”
- Daniel Sarewitz for The Weekly Standard: “Hossenfelder jets around the world talking to physicists about the challenges facing the field.”
- John Horgan for Scientific American Blogs: “fascinating, painfully honest.”
- Graham Famelo for the Wall Street Journal: “lively and provocative”.
- Brian Clegg for PopularScience (blog): “It's about time a physicist said this.”
- Emanuel Rayner on Goodreads: “I just couldn't put this book down.”
- Chris Lee for Ars Technica: “Lost in Math is a quick and relatively light read.”
- Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong: “It’s very good and you should get a copy.”
- Dr. Djuna Lize Croon for Science Magazine: “Although sure to be unpopular, her critical assessment of the field is appropriately timed.” (Note: This review is factually incorrect on various points.)
Interviews with the author:
- Marcelo Gleiser for Orbiter: “Theoretical Physics: Bad Science?”
- Dan Falk for NBCnews: “Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails.”
- Claire O'Connell for Silicon Republic: “Do we fall too easily for beautiful laws in physics?”
- Iulia Georgescu from On Your Wavelength
- Edge.org: “Looking in the Wrong Places” (video with transcript)
- Tam Hunt on Medium: “Has physics gone astray?”
- Manfred Dworschak für den Spiegel: “Warum gerade die, und warum 25?” (in German)
- Ulf von Rauchhaupt für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (July 2nd, 2018): “Verführte Physik.” (in German)
Excerpts: