Mathematician:Edward Witten

Mathematician
American theoretical physicist and professor of mathematical physics.

Researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: August 26, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
 * 1990: Awarded a Fields Medal for his $1981$ proof of the Positive Energy Theorem in general relativity

Theorems and Definitions

 * Seiberg-Witten Theory (with )
 * Seiberg-Witten Invariant (with )


 * Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten Model (with, and ) (also known as Wess-Zumino-Witten Model or WZW Model)


 * Weinberg-Witten Theorem (with )
 * Gromov-Witten Invariant (with }
 * Hořava-Witten Domain Wall (with )
 * Vafa-Witten Theorem (with )
 * Witten Index
 * BCFW Recursion (with, and )
 * Witten-Type TQFT
 * CSW Rules (with and )
 * Witten Conjecture
 * Hanany-Witten Transition (with )

Publications

 * 1976: Some Problems in the Short Distance Analysis of Gauge Theories




 * 1985: Current Algebra and Anomalies: A Set of Lecture Notes and Papers (with, , and )






 * 1988: Superstring Theory. Vol. 1, Introduction (with and )


 * 1988: Superstring Theory. Vol. 2, Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology (with and )