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First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics. In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical Minimum, Susskind and Friedman provide a lively introduction to this famously difficult field, which attempts to understand the behavior of sub-atomic objects through mathematical abstractions. Unlike other popularizations that shy away from quantum mechanics' weirdness, Quantum Mechanics embraces the utter strangeness of quantum logic. The authors offer crystal-clear explanations of the principles of quantum states, uncertainty and time dependence, entanglement, and particle and wave states, among other topics, and each chapter includes exercises to ensure mastery of each area. Like The Theoretical Minimum, this volume runs parallel to Susskind's eponymous Stanford University-hosted continuing education course. An approachable yet rigorous introduction to a famously difficult topic, Quantum Mechanics provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.

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I'm not sure how (as of today) this book has received 4.5 stars, so I felt it my moral obligation to chime in.A little background about me: As an undergraduate, I took Modern Physics and received an A; I also took Quantum Mechanics at the graduate level and received an A. Then, in my Ph.D. program, I took Nuclear Physics and received an A. That was several years ago, so I decided to dive back into the topic to refresh my understanding. So while I'm no expert, there certainly was a time in the not-too-distant past in which many university professors would say that I had at least some basic understanding of QM. That said...I seriously struggled through this book. I read it very slowly to the end, did the problems, re-read it, and still failed to learn anything new from it. In contrast, I also used several other resources to learn QM (including a free online MIT course on QM, lectures and a book by Feynman, and even a few "philosophy" books on QM by Tim Maudlin and Peter Lewis) and found them incredibly helpful.As it turns out, there are several things in Susskind's book that I did understand, but they were things that I learned from other sources. In other words, I learned literally nothing new from his book.The book contains very few (if any) fundamental explanations of anything -- the book is mostly equations riddled with text written in a language that you'd only understand if you were already intimately familiar with QM. For example, he never explains why complex numbers are required in QM (although he promises to on p. 21!). Turns out it's a pretty important reason, not to mention very interesting, relating to how probabilities combine. He never explains why it matters that an operator acting on an eigenvector simply multiplies the vector by a number (eigenvalue). He never explains what a Hermitian operator fundamentally is, or why this all takes place in Hilbert space (or what that is). He never explains the relationship between discrete QM (which utilizes matrices) and continuous QM (which utilizes integrals), or why that would matter (representing spin versus position, for example).He never -- and this is KEY -- NEVER explains where the heck QM came from. QM came, in part, from the realization that the probability distributions we would expect from a particular experiment did not fit classical predictions. The normal means of combining probabilities by AND and OR rules didn't work in certain cases: for example, by adding a second possible path for a particle to pass, it became possible to REDUCE the number of particles that landed in certain places (an effect called "interference"). However, if instead possible events were designated by characteristic numbers (we call them "complex amplitudes"), such that individually their probabilities were just the square of the amplitude's magnitude, then we CAN make the right experimental predictions if we combine the amplitudes according to the rules of probability. Anyway, this is a long way of saying that QM was a huge GUESS, and it has turned out, after uncountably many experiments, to be confirmed. But Susskind never discusses this. Same for the Uncertainty Principle. He "derives" the uncertainty equation without ever mentioning that Heisenberg's formulation was based on a thought experiment regarding measurement, and that the Uncertainty Principle wasn't empirically confirmed until decades after it was assumed to be true. The mathematical "proof" that Susskind puts forth depends on the assumption that a particle has a wavelength and that the Fourier transform of a particle's position yields its momentum. But that's circular, since if you've already assumed that the particle's position function contains information about its momentum, then obviously the more information you have about one, the less you have about the other. That doesn't mean the proof or assumptions are wrong, but without knowing them, the curious and skeptical reader will simply be frustrated by Susskind's failure to offer any kind of context.If you are a neophyte, this book is not for you. If you are educated and have already taken several courses in QM and want a refresher, this book is not for you. I'm not sure who it's for -- someone who's already an expert?I can't recommend this book with any less enthusiasm.

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