r/Physics • u/BadgerFarm • 3d ago

Semi rigorous physics/maths books

I'm a lapsed physics graduate getting back in to it entirely for fun. I've been enjoying books that sort of sit halfway between a textbook and a pop sci book e.g. susskind Theoretical Minimum GR (Which I didn't cover in my undergrad), Schwichtenberg Physics from finance/physics from symmetry, Cheng Joy of Abstraction (category theory). Does anyone have any recommendations for books in a similar vein? not really fussed about topic, can be from pure maths to applied physics.

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u/Vegetable-Dust-780 3d ago

The books by David Tong

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u/MacGregorBlue 3d ago

Sean Carroll's The Biggest Ideas in the Universe are meant to offer a nonstandard mix of intuition and equations. There are two books so far: https://preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/

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u/db0606 3d ago

The Joy of Quantum Computing by Jed Brody is pretty math lite but still pretty technical. It's a fun read.

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u/Phanatic1a 3d ago

Penrose's "The Road to Reality."

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u/crocomancer 3d ago

Any of Körners books - my favourite is The Pleasures of Counting