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The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics

About the Author

Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in Theoretical Physics at Stanford University since 1978, and his online lectures are viewed all around the world. One of the fathers of string theory, he is the author of The Black Hole War and The Cosmic Landscape. Art Friedman is a life-long student of physics, and his career encompasses software engineering, teaching, and writing. When he's not busy puzzling over quantum entanglement, Art plays the fiddle.

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The writing is fresh and immediate, crisp and satisfying .... A persuasive overview
*Nature*