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Jul 25, 2023 at 23:08 comment added Song of Physics @knzhou keep in mind that I've not recommended the book as a text or a coursework reference. It's a good place to start for someone who has made a journey mostly via popular science to get a taste for what it really is like to think about the things us physicists think about. I believe my answer was pretty clear on that matter anyways.
Jul 25, 2023 at 23:02 comment added Song of Physics The bottomline is that while the content can be very confusing at times, it helps to have conversations with people who know their stuff in the field as you read it. The book combined with some of my professors, peers and quite a few folks online helped me learn a lot. I'm sure it can be the same for the intended audience if they use the book cleverly. That could be true of any book of course, but with this one you tend to have more questions than most regular pop science ones which tend to give you a false sense of understanding.
Jul 25, 2023 at 22:58 comment added Song of Physics @knzhou I have indeed read the book. Took me a few years to finish it so I'm aware of how dense some of the content is. However, having gone through it I also realised that it does a pretty solid job in conveying the conceptual ideas that are either oversimplified in typical popular books and articles or hidden far beneath layers of complicated mathematics.
Jul 25, 2023 at 16:11 comment added knzhou Have you actually used The Road to Reality? It goes from $1+1=2$ to calculus in 100 pages, and then to fiber bundles in another 100 pages. Nobody can actually learn math at that pace. The book is good for people who already know the material, or as casual reading for people who aren’t actually trying to understand it.
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