Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Professor Leonard Susskind has a remarkable mind and it's on display in this book.  Susskind started out his young adulthood as a plumber's apprentice, and told his father "I want to be a physicist".  His father, owner of the family's plumbing business, thought he meant "pharmacist" and urged him to go to pharmacy school.  But young Leonard told his father, "No, I want to be like Einstein."  His father hadn't thought of that possibility, but happily supported him in his endeavor.  Susskind, now a professor at Stanford University, is known for not always having the right answers, but always asking the right questions.  He's also an amazing teacher, loved over the course of decades by his many students.  In this volume, which he wrote with data engineer Art Friedman, Dr. Susskind takes on the challenges of quantum mechanics, and explains it in an understandable way -- but using equations.  So make sure your mathematics skills are solid when reading this incredibly detailed, but enjoyable book!