The Road To Reality

The road to reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical ... » 

The road to reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for examplee, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. «