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The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/the-road-to-reality-a-really-long-history-of-time.html https://www.nytime

• Koshkin 6y ago
  This book is totally inappropriate for learning mathematics, especially for a teenager. A well-prepared layman, maybe, but not a teenager who just wants a good introduction to the subject.
  • mhh__ 6y ago
    It's an inspired book, but it's not a textbook. It's purpose to me at least was as a guide to the mathematics that was too difficult for me to understand straight away but could be considered the end goal to a given study i.e. As Symplectic Geometry is Analytical Mechanics.
  • analbumcover 6y ago
    I would be absolutely flabbergasted if a layman could get through Road to Reality. Even those with an engineering or computer science background would struggle considerably. That said, it serves as a great overview of physics for mathematicians and perhaps as very casual intro to twistor theory for physicists.