She also writes for publications like Quanta and Forbes, and periodically even produces and sings in music videos with physics themes. Besides this research specialty, she is engaged in many activities designed to communicate with the public, maintaining an excellent blog entitled Backreaction as well as a Twitter account well worth following.
The author is a theoretical physicist whose specialty is the study of the possibility of experimentally accessible signatures of quantum gravitational effects. The usage of “Math” in the title is more like the everyday usage as meaning “calculation”, making a claim that theorists have gotten lost in endless calculations in ever more complex models, unable to find a route towards genuinely new ideas that could lead to connection to experiment and real progress. Mathematician readers should be warned that the title of the book may mislead them: there is little about mathematics as such, or the topic of its complex relations with modern theoretical physics. The author is completely honest, utterly fearless, and often quite funny. Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Lost in Math provides a well-informed take on the current situation in fundamental physical theory.
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