The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind

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Résumé :
Teaches the skills you need to do physics yourself. This title introduces all the key concepts, from classical mechanics to general relativity to quantum theory.

Biographie:
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.

What a wonderful and unique resource. For anyone who is determined to learn physics for real, looking beyond conventional popularizations, this is the ideal place to start. It gets directly to the important points, with nuggets of deep insight scattered along the way. I'm going to be recommending this book right and left -- Sean Carroll, physicist and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe So what do you do if you enjoyed science at school or college but ended up with a different career and are still wondering what makes the universe tick? ... The Theoretical Minimum is the book for you. In this neat little book the authors aim to provide the minimum amount of knowledge you need about classical physics ... to gain some real understanding of the world ... They do so with great success ... Along the way you get beautifully clear explanations of famously 'difficult' things like differential and integral calculus, conservation laws and what physicists mean by symmetries -- John Gribbin Wall Street Journal