My Goodreads Rating: 3 of 5 stars Trying to teach undergrads general relativity is about as easy as teaching a puppy… general relativity. Hartle strikes a pretty good balance with this book, offering 30-page chapters with *gasp* only a half-dozen equations that focus on conveying high-level concepts as well as chapters fully devoted to tensors, [...]
Book Review: Gravity by James Hartle
May 19th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: cosmology · einstein · general relativity · physics · science · textbooks
Book Review: Neuroscience by Dale Purves
May 18th, 2010 No Comments
My Goodreads Rating: 2 of 5 stars This book has a nasty habit of mistaking naming for explaining, but it served the purpose of introducing an egghead physicist/mathematician to the messy biological world of neuroscience. If nothing else, its convincing evidence that neuroscience needs theorists. If (Amount of jargon) > (Space in a human brain), [...]
Tags: brains · neuroscience · textbooks