Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli Riverhead Books, New York, 2016. Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, the head of the "Quantum Gravity Group" at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University, and a "founder" of the loop quantum gravity theory. He is thus the real thing as a physicist; and this book is based on a series of popular articles he wrote about.

His Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is an international bestseller translated into forty-one languages. More books by Carlo Rovelli. Leave Review. Staff Choice. All it takes is an open mind to understand these delightful explorations of the wonders of the fabric of the universe itself. Rovelli is a Carl Sagan-style polymath, at home with poetry.