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Roger Penrose Kip Thorne Michio Kaku Douglas Hofstadter Isaac Asimov (non-fiction/essays) All have written numerous excellent books on various physics topi
by madaxe_again 7y ago
Roger Penrose
Kip Thorne
Michio Kaku
Douglas Hofstadter
Isaac Asimov (non-fiction/essays)
All have written numerous excellent books on various physics topics, and each explains the concepts they wish to convey clearly, with as much or as little mathematics as you like.
Before I went to university to read physics, I devoured their (and others) popular science books, and had a pretty good understanding of the majority of the material on my degree course before I started it - the degree filled in the blanks, annealed the maths in my mind - but there’s little as good as a book written by an expert on a topic to imbue knowledge.
- pdonis 7y agoIn general I think actual textbooks or course materials (the OP mentioned MIT Open Courseware, which I think is a good set of course materials--full disclosure: I'm an MIT alum) are better for learning physics, or any scientific field, than pop science books, however high quality. That said, if you are going to read pop science books, I don't think Michio Kaku is a good choice. He is much too prone to treat way-out speculations as though they were established physics.