Since I’m unsure where else to place this recommendation, I’ll take this opportunity to put it here. I’m currently reading the book The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature and absolutely loving it. It deals with advanced topics in a way that’s so easy to understand I imagine it could be taught to fourth graders. Each chapter deals with a type of pattern, such as bubbles, or cracks, or waves, and discusses several examples of where those patterns appear and why, and what that indicates about the pattern. I’m not a physicist, but I’m reading the book because the experience is less like learning about physics and more like learning about common heuristics of thought.
Since I’m unsure where else to place this recommendation, I’ll take this opportunity to put it here. I’m currently reading the book The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature and absolutely loving it. It deals with advanced topics in a way that’s so easy to understand I imagine it could be taught to fourth graders. Each chapter deals with a type of pattern, such as bubbles, or cracks, or waves, and discusses several examples of where those patterns appear and why, and what that indicates about the pattern. I’m not a physicist, but I’m reading the book because the experience is less like learning about physics and more like learning about common heuristics of thought.