Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein
Born	Eric Ross Weinstein October 1965 Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics, physics, economics, finance, public policy
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania Harvard University

Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 1965) is an American mathematician and economist. In May 2013, he proposed a solution to some of the problems in modern physics. His theory included an "observerse", a 14-dimensional space, and predictions for undiscovered particles which could account for dark matter.

Weinstein was born in Los Angeles, California. His family is Jewish.

In 1985, he graduated in his third year at the University of Pennsylvania as a University Scholar, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics. He earned a 1992 Ph.D in Mathematical Physics from the Mathematics Department of Harvard University. He has since held a Lady Davis Fellowship in the Racah Institute of Physics at Hebrew University, a National Science Foundation fellowship in the mathematics department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grantee in the Harvard Economics Department and National Bureau for Economic Research where he founded the Project on the Economics of Advanced Training with economist Richard Freeman.

Along with collaborator Pia Malaney, Weinstein showed that neoclassical economics was in fact an example of a naturally occurring gauge theory. This discovery paralleled a similar such discovery linking mathematics to physics by Chen Ning Yang, and collaborators at Stony Brook in the 1970s. The approach has been separately discussed from viewpoints in both the economics and physics literature but has yet to gain a wider awareness with few academicians possessing backgrounds in both physics and economics. Recently, a program for 'Geometric Marginalism' by Weinstein and Malaney has been funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

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