I've restarted (from the beginning) Roger Penrose's book, The Road to Reality (not to be confused with various Bob Hope films). It's a big book, ostensibly aimed at the non-specialist, that attempts to cover most of modern maths and physics, and unlike most similar tomes, it doesn't shy away from the maths. It even has the odd exercise for the reader.
The first time I tried it, a couple of years ago, I got a bit stuck a third of the way through. This was despite me having a degree in mathematics. I'm hoping that I'll persevere better this time and actually get to the end. So far I'm up to chapter 5.
If I finish this whole book, I will officially be clever.
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I had this book and A Brief History of Time shipped out here in the hopes that I would actually get to finish at least one of them.
1/6 of the way through my stay, and no signs of even opening them yet.
Actually, it's quite possible, given the weight of Road to Reality, that that's why my stuff went so far off course.
ABHoT is dead easy for anyone with any kind of physics knowledge - it only gets a bad press for being hard because lots of lay-people tried to read it.
RrR does get genuinely hard!
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