Built from first principles

A library of books that show their working.

Each one begins at the beginning and derives what it uses. Where something is taken on trust it is marked as such, so you always know what you are standing on.

A build-it-yourself book

From Newton to M-Theory

Special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, the Standard Model and string theory — derived, not asserted.

37 of 76 chapters written

A history in arguments

The Long Argument

Eight arguments that never finished — read in pairs, across the centuries that kept reopening them.

133 thinkers, each with a study

An atlas

The Ages of Thought

Ten ages, and the people who argued their way from one to the next.

133 thinkers across ten ages

A working reference

Breast Cancer

Biology, heterogeneity, and the decisions that follow, for oncologists who have to act on both.

98 chapters

How market makers move markets

The Other End of the Trade

SPX options from the dealer's side of the trade, taught from the ground up: what a market maker takes on with every option, the hedging that forces on it, the footprint that hedging leaves on the index, and how to trade with that knowledge.

89 chapters