So often physics writers are so enamored with the fact they know the material, that the deliberately talk about the material in a terse and inaccessible way. The beauty of physics is that it makes sense, so there is no reason for anybody to try to alienate those looking to learn physics, academia and knowledge should not be a club people attempt to exclude others from but rather should be something we all welcome each other into and try to make knowledge as accessible as possible.<br><br>The drive of this book seems to do just that for quantum physics, the goal is to communicate to the reader the concepts in the most digestible and accessible way possible. This isn't "dumbing it down" it's simply "not being obtuse for obtuse sake".<br><br>In my Quantum Physics course we have 2 textbooks, this one and a more traditional one, the more traditional one has slightly more challenging problems, but it does a terrible job teaching the fundamentals whereas this book teaches the fundamentals beautifully.<br><br>I give this book 5/5 stars because most textbooks don't try hard enough to be disarming and accessible, most textbooks try to tell the reader that "if you don't understand this, the problem is with YOU" this book is all about making the material accessible, and taking the responsibility to make everything understandable from the writers perspective, not putting all that judgement/burden on the reader.<br><br>So you take all that and you consider the fact that the book doesn't waste time with irrelevant things AND is less than 20 bucks? How can you not love a book that communicates all the fundamentals so much better than a book 6 times it's price?