Recommended by Naval Ravikant, and 1 others. See all reviews
Ranked #17 in Physics, Ranked #27 in Astrophysics — see more rankings.
All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.
This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute... more
This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute... more
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is ranked in the following categories:
- #37 in Black Holes
- #35 in Cosmology
- #85 in Italian
- #75 in Popular Science
- #53 in Quantum Mechanics
- #49 in STEM
- #57 in Science
- #97 in Science and Math
- #89 in Scientific