In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction but the real thing - everything you need to start doing physics, and nothing more. Now he returns with the next challenge that every aspiring physics buff must tackle: quantum mechanics.

Unlike classical mechanics, quantum mechanics is not intuitive - it concerns things so small they are beyond the range of human senses. To understand quantum physics, you need to learn a whole new way of thinking, but then, Susskind reveals, you will discover that it is even more fundamental than classical mechanics. Unlike most popular physics books - which give readers a taste of what physicists know but not what they actually do - Susskind and his co-author Art Friedman teach the maths and equations that are essential to any real understanding of quantum mechanics. Combining crystal-clear explanations, witty and helpful dialogues, and basic exercises, Quantum Mechanics is, to paraphrase Einstein, as simple as possible, but no simpler.

• The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
• The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
• A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
• Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
• A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity