Actually though, if you’ve never seen matrices and very simple linear algebra, this is a good place to learn some basics examples of this subject.Ī year ago the first book version of some of the lectures appeared as The Theoretical Minimum, with George Hrabovsky writing up Susskind’s lectures on classical mechanics. Such textbooks generally assume college-level multi-variable calculus, differential equations and linear algebra, and often skip lots of detail and motivation, assuming that the book is a supplement to a standard course of lectures.įor Susskind’s lectures, you mostly just need high-school level mathematics, up to some some basic differential calculus, as well as two by two matrices. The general idea seems to be to provide something in between the usual sort of popular book about physics (which avoids equations and tries to give “intutitive” explanations in ordinary language) and conventional undergraduate-level textbooks. In recent years Leonard Susskind has been giving an excellent series of lectures on basic ideas of theoretical physics, under the title The Theoretical Minimum.
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