DJ Strouse

My Goodreads Review rating: 2 of 5 stars I read about half of this but realized it’s not exactly the greatest introductory text to classical mechanics. Landau seems to have attained god-like status among many physicists for his “great books,” but these are really only great in retrospect, as unifiers of concepts once you’ve learned [...]

My Goodreads Review rating: 4 of 5 stars Quantum physics is notoriously for crushing the enthusiasm of many a young physics student with a massive iron club of mathematics but this is a surprisingly gentle introduction that doesn’t sacrifice the theory. Quantum theory grew out of investigations into atoms and the basic approach of this [...]

My Goodreads Review rating: 3 of 5 stars This is David Deutsch’s plea to the scientific world to tear down the separation between theory and their own worldviews and truly own the picture of reality that modern physics has painted for us. He begs that we take our theories seriously as fundamental paradigms and not [...]