Edward Witten

Edward Witten was born into a jewish family, to his parents Lorraine and Lois Witten. His father was a specialist in gravity and general relativity, while his brother was a television producer. In 1971, Witten went to Brandeis University and received his BA, then in 1974 went on to princeton and received his MA and then in 1976, received his PhD. Witten went to the university of Wisconsin in Madison but ended up dropping out after only a semester. Witten started to study history like subjects, but when going to Princeton he started to study mathematical subjects. After working on his first string theory revolution that had to deal with gravitational anomaly. In 1977, a few years later he started working on supersymmetry and morse theory after …show more content…
While still in school in Madison, Witten wrote and published a couple of articles, The Nation and The new Republic. He wrote that he could write a framework for comprehending the mathematical theory of three manifolds and knots. Since this work was based on notion of the Feynman Path, it made it not mathematically correct, which became the theory of Reshetikhin Turaev invariants. While working with another physicist, he wrote a paper about anomalies, which is radioactive decay, only studied in terms of topology, and in 10 dimensions. The M-theory is the theory that brought five different suggestions into equations and added dimensions, that suggests strings were membranes/branes. The membranes/branes could only work in at least three dimensions and be the size of the universe and the universe could be sitting on the branes. Witten also theorized the twist theory in 1965. This theory came up to say that the extra dimensions in the M-theory and the string theory were not necessary. He made tributes in gauge and gravitational duality. While working with Nathan Seiberg, Witten wrote a paper stating that they studied the aspects of the supersymmetric gauge