No-Nonsense Classical Mechanical (Jakob Schwichtenberg)
No-Nonsense Classical Mechanical (Jakob Schwichtenberg)

Until now I had referred to popular science or essays books, but in this post I comment on “No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics” by Jakob Schwichtenberg, which would be more akin to a textbook. The content of the book is an introduction to the different formulations of Classical Mechanics – Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian, mainly (*) –... » read more

Mysteries of the Quantum Universe (Damour & Burniat)
Mysteries of the Quantum Universe (Damour & Burniat)

As I wrote in the post about Logicomix, I wanted to see what result can be achieved using a medium like comics to present and explain scientific concepts. So I tried it with another book: “Mysteries of the Quantum Universe” by the theoretical physicist Thibault Damour and the author of graphic novels Mathieu Burniat. After... » read more

The Universe that discovered itself (Barrow)
The Universe that discovered itself (Barrow)

One of my favorite popular science book writer is John D. Barrow. His books focuses on his two academic and research specialties: mathematics and physics. He writes about these matters quite clearly, although in this facet I think there are other authors who elaborate or take more risks to explain complex concepts to a general... » read more

Learning about Quantum Computing (and don’t forget it!)
Learning about Quantum Computing (and don’t forget it!)

Quantum Computing for the very curious is an interesting content that you can consult on the web Quantum Country and that includes two aspects: Content with which you can learn about quantum computing that is based on a serie of videos by the author Michael Nielsen (assumes some ‘basic’ math background and it goes far... » read more