Book description
In this unconventional and stimulating primer, world-class physicist
Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist George Hrabovsky combine forces
to provide a brilliant first course in modern physics. Unlike most
popular physics books - which give readers a taste of what physicists
know
but not what they actually do
- Susskind and Hrabovsky teach the skills you need to do physics
yourself. Combining crystal-clear explanations of the laws of the
universe with basic exercises, the authors cover the minimum - the
theoretical minimum of the title - that readers need to master in order
to study more advanced topics. In a lucid, engaging style, they
introduce all the key concepts, from classical mechanics to general
relativity to quantum theory. Instead of shying away from the equations
and maths that are essential to any understanding of physics, The
Theoretical Minimum
provides a toolkit that you won't find in any other popular science
book.
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in
Theoretical Physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of
The Black Hole War and The Cosmic Landscape, he
lives in Palo Alto, California. He is widely considered to be one of
the fathers of string theory.
George Hrabovsky is the president of Madison Area Science and
Technology (MAST), a nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific
and technological research and education. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
