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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 472,333 ratings — published 1988
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.61 — 8,040 ratings — published 1964
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,150 ratings — published 2014
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,127 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,409 ratings — published 2004
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 4,794 ratings — published 1687
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 215,407 ratings — published 1985
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 22,855 ratings — published 1916
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 16,226 ratings — published 2014
The Character of Physical Law (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 7,753 ratings — published 1964
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 8,331 ratings — published 2012
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 76,480 ratings — published 1884
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 76,928 ratings — published 2010
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 30,480 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,806 ratings — published 1994
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 19,327 ratings — published 1985
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 635 ratings — published 2017
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 40,588 ratings — published 1987
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 3,700 ratings — published 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 202,847 ratings — published 2017
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,438 ratings — published 2017
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 16,970 ratings — published 2011
The Nature of the Physical World (Textbook Binding)
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avg rating 3.98 — 113 ratings — published 1920
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,858 ratings — published 1996
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 157,095 ratings — published 1980
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 65,382 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 101,616 ratings — published 1999
Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 138 ratings — published 1998
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 21,498 ratings — published 1984
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 57,085 ratings — published 2005
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 10,609 ratings — published 2006
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 10,445 ratings — published 2007
Euclid's Elements (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 3,347 ratings — published -290
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 682 ratings — published 2006
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 39,042 ratings — published 1994
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,518 ratings — published 1994
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,456 ratings — published 1994
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 6,808 ratings — published 2009
Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 103 ratings — published 2011
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,382 ratings — published 2018
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,255 ratings — published 2016
Classical Mechanics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,331 ratings — published 1950
The Principles Of Quantum Mechanics (International Series Of Monographs On Physics)
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avg rating 4.42 — 542 ratings — published 1958
Linear Algebra and Its Applications (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,172 ratings — published 1976
The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 494 ratings — published 1991
General Relativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 312 ratings — published 1984
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 33,076 ratings — published 1997
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 24,241 ratings — published 2008
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,582 ratings — published 1989
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 24,089 ratings — published 1994
“This “Hawking temperature” of a black hole and its “Hawking radiation” (as they came to be called) were truly radical—perhaps the most radical theoretical physics discovery in the second half of the twentieth century. They opened our eyes to profound connections between general relativity (black holes), thermodynamics (the physics of heat) and quantum physics (the creation of particles where before there were none). For example, they led Stephen to prove that a black hole has entropy, which means that somewhere inside or around the black hole there is enormous randomness. He deduced that the amount of entropy (the logarithm of the hole’s amount of randomness) is proportional to the hole’s surface area. His formula for the entropy is engraved on Stephen’s memorial stone at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, where he worked.
For the past forty-five years, Stephen and hundreds of other physicists have struggled to understand the precise nature of a black hole’s randomness. It is a question that keeps on generating new insights about the marriage of quantum theory with general relativity—that is, about the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
For the past forty-five years, Stephen and hundreds of other physicists have struggled to understand the precise nature of a black hole’s randomness. It is a question that keeps on generating new insights about the marriage of quantum theory with general relativity—that is, about the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“In the one real, time-drenched universe, everything has a particular history precisely because it is finite, and not part of an infinite array. Moreover, the cosmological use of the infinite serves to mask the failure of a physical theory taken beyond the boundaries of its proper domain of application. The most notable instance is the inference in contemporary cosmology of an infinite initial singularity from the field equations of general relativity. Finally, the admission of the mathematical infinite into natural science effaces the difference, which we emphasize, between nature and mathematics. Nature works in time, with which mathematics has trouble. Mathematics offers, among other things, the infinite, which nature abhors.”
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