Most popular books on physics attempt to explain ideas without equations (the popular dogma says that each equation cuts sales in half). But when the book’s advertised purpose is to provide the ...

Landau and Lifshitz’ volumes are nothing short of the elegant Feynman lectures in physics. For those who don’t know about the series; these volumes are known as “Course of Theoretical Physics“, and ...

After abandoning family plans to go into the heating business, Leonard Susskind went on to become a founder of string theory. He is the director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics in ...

A biography masquerading as a novel dipping into the realm of speculative fiction is a hat trick few authors can pull off. Yet Giller and Governor-General Award winner M.G. Vassanji manages to do just ...

Explore 10 new works related to particle physics and astrophysics, plus a bonus book on math. Symmetry writer Mike Perricone is back again with a round-up of this year’s popular writing related to ...

This year’s list includes a book about an eminent physicist striving to avoid fame, two unique books for children, and a book with equations you'll actually be able to read. Elusive: How Peter Higgs ...

From a pop-up book about the Large Hadron Collider to biographies of the great and good, this year has seen the usual wide-ranging mix of popular-physics books. But how do you separate the best from ...

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need To Know To Start Doing Physics by George Hrabovsky and Leonard Susskind is an important work in physics and higher mathematics. The book describes classical ...