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 ...

Jesse Cohen is the series editor of "The Best American Science Writing." IN A PACKED lecture hall at Columbia University in 1958 -- or so the story goes -- the eminent physicist Wolfgang Pauli was ...

During a day of talks at Stanford University, theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind explained “Why I Teach Physics to Old Codgers, and How It Got to Be a YouTube Sensation.” Stanford professor ...

Lowry Kirkby reviews The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky Thirst for physics: Leonard Susskind's popular series of lectures ...

For a good view into the real world of physics—not the sanitized version of textbooks and newspaper reports—you need a native guide. Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (widely known as “Lenny”) is ...

It is all too easy to compound the perplexities of quantum mechanics. Monographs are often weighed down by abstruse mathematics; other treatments struggle to separate physics from formalism. The ...

Appearance is one thing, but reality is another. The world does not appear to be a hologram, but maybe it is. Thus begins physicist Leonard Susskind in opening a doorway between science and religion ...

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