Books similar to Penrose's Road to Reality

[smodak]

I started reading Penrose's Road to Reality and really loving it so far. I am just curious - are there other books such as this that do not avoid necessary mathematics but is not really a textbook? I love this format. I also finished and liked Susskind's Theoretical Minimum (first volume - classical mechanics) which I also liked.

 

[yenchin]

If you like cosmology, you may like "Your Cosmic Context", the math is not heavy, but it's certainly halfway between pop science and textbook. It has some good explanations of stuffs!

Also, try Visual Complex Analysis, it is almost a textbook, but with pretty pictures all the way! The author is, by the way, a student of Penrose.

And then there's "Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein".

 

[smodak]

If you like cosmology, you may like "Your Cosmic Context", the math is not heavy, but it's certainly halfway between pop science and textbook. It has some good explanations of stuffs!

Also, try Visual Complex Analysis, it is almost a textbook, but with pretty pictures all the way! The author is, by the way, a student of Penrose.

And then there's "Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein".

Thanks. Good suggestions! Will check them out. Keep them coming guys.

 

[Daverz]

Doughty, Lagrangian Interaction: An Introduction To Relativistic Symmetry In Electrodynamics And Gravitation

Oliver, The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World

Zee's new Einstein's Gravity in a Nutshell.

Chester, Primer of Quantum Mechanics. Odd but fascinating little book.

I also recommend the Needham book.

 

[smodak]

Doughty, Lagrangian Interaction: An Introduction To Relativistic Symmetry In Electrodynamics And Gravitation

Oliver, The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World

Zee's new Einstein's Gravity in a Nutshell.

Chester, Primer of Quantum Mechanics. Odd but fascinating little book.

I also recommend the Needham book.

Great Stuff! Thank you!
I do own Zee's gravity and the Chester QM - but yet to read them.

So, why do you guys think all these books are similar to Penrose's?

My amazon wish list is growing...