Leonard Susskind, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-316-15579-3
As modern physics has developed a better understanding of how the universe operates at its most fundamental levels, one thing has become increasingly clear: we're damned lucky to be here at all. The laws of physics are precariously balanced, and
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Leonard Susskind, Author . Little, Brown $27.99 (470p) ISBN 978-0-316-01640-7
Bets made over a beer between scientists rarely make the headlines, but in 2004 Stephen Hawking conceded that he'd lost a bet and that a view he had held for 30 years was wrong. According to Stanford physicist Susskind (The Cosmic Landscape
), one...
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Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. Basic, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-465-02811-5
Readers ready to embrace their inner applied mathematician will enjoy this brisk, bare-bones introduction to classical mechanics drawn from Stanford University’s “Continuing Studies” program. Although physicist Susskind (The Black Hole War) and...
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Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman. Basic, $26.99 (386p) ISBN 978-0-465-03667-7
Considered volume II in Susskind’s “Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics” series (volume I covered classical mechanics), the authors offer highly motivated readers an introduction to the advanced mathematics needed to...
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Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman. Basic, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-465-09334-2
Susskind and Friedman follow their collaboration on Quantum Mechanics by probing the mathematical nitty-gritty of field theory and Einstein’s theory of special relativity in the third installment of the Theoretical Minimum series. The series is...
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Leonard Susskind, with André Cabannes. Basic, $32 (400p) ISBN 978-1-541-60177-2
Susskind, a physics professor at Stanford, and Cabannas, a former MIT math professor, offer an overview of Einstein’s theory of general relativity in this survey for specialists, the fourth volume of their Theoretical Minimum series (after Special...
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