Perhaps the “Best textbooks on every subject” thread[1] at Less Wrong will be more to your liking? (I have found good popsci books to sometimes be better at co

Perhaps the “Best textbooks on every subject” thread[1] at Less Wrong will be more to your liking? (I have found good popsci books to sometimes be better at conveying historical context, though, simply because textbooks may consider that context to be out of scope, and in a formal settings your professor’s asides would compensate for that. Then, of course, there are textbooks disguised as popsci ones, like Aaronson’s quantum computing one.) [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...