The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has regret not taking physics courses in their studies – or who simply wants to learn how to think like a physicist.

In this unconventional introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and "hacker-scientist" George Hrabovsky offer the enthusiastic amateur a first row of lessons in physics and the accompanying mathematics.

Unlike most popular physics books – which give readers a taste of what physicists know but avoid equations or mathematics – Susskind and Hrabovsky actually teach the skills you need to do physics on your own, starting with Classical Mechanics.

Using the extremely popular lifelong learning series based at Stanford University (and featured on YouTube), the authors cover the minimum – the theoretical minimum of the title – that readers need to grasp in order to study more advanced topics.

An alternative to the conventional method, The Theoretical Minimum provides a toolkit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.