i don't know what your background is in mathematics but if your looking to really understand it fundamental knowledge in order to fully grasp the foundations of quantum mechanics... you could understand some of the experiments though or the practical applications of examples in our lives... whoahhhhh. know i'm starting to sound new age...
about six months ago my sister asked me the same question you did and i honestly didn't have any answers for her... you see, she's a lit professor with very little math knowledge, and the some of the books i've read on some of it challenged the fuck out of me and i told her i really didn't have any solid suggestions but i told her to ask someone in the physics department... she thought that was a great idea and after checking out the physics staff decided to email an assistant professor, because they shared the same name... that's just the way my sister thinks to be honest, she's always been the that way, and so have i become in some ways, after experiencing some of the things i have... but i digress... two days later the women shows up at her office, with two gifts... a book called Mr. Tompkins in Paperback which turns out to be an updated version of "mr tomkins in wunderland"... it's written by george gamow... i looked into gamow... he was brilliant... he was played an important role in the success of the manhatten project... i found this in one reader review just awhile ago...
Quote: Other Gamow titles: Biography of Physics, Atomic Energy [dedicated to the hope of lasting peace], Physics of the Strapless Evening Gown,...We are lucky that Dover has reprinted some of them. Gamow's list of scientific accomplishments includes a 1948 landmark paper on the origin of chemical elements, the Big Bang model, and later work with F. Crick on DNA and genetic coding.-- Do more Gamow editions, Dover!
i looked into him when the woman first suggested the book to my sister and found he's written tons of books and all received stellar amazon ratings... i do plan on reading some... the book is written from a literary perspective, it turns out the woman was a lit minor and when she discovered my sister was a lit professor, she wanted to give them to her personally... my sister returned the favor with a few of her favorite books and today their good friends... isn't it strange how the mechanics of the universe work?
the second was a book titled Quantum Mechanics in Simple Matrix Form written by thomas jordan... gamow's book made it easy for her to understand jordan's book which it even easier for her to understand others... i turned her onto michio kaku... you might not like kaku though, he's a theoretical physicist who isn't quiet spiritual but may come off as one to someone like yourself... to break it down he looks at it in these simple terms... the universe created the earth and the earth created us... this may come off too new age for some... kaku is the pioneer in string theory... many people believe string theory is fluffy nonsense, but they tend to be outside of physic's though they have some understanding of physics... people who think the tides effect the moon or instance, while others, including fishermen believe the moon and sun effect the tides... kaku spoke about an OBE, during an a radio interview... maybe that's what's swayed him... 
Michio Kaku on God
my sister has read several books by kaku already... he's a huge futurist though, that also tends to throw people off... kaku has a very popular program on the science channel...
Stephen Hawking on God
hawkings doesn't believe in a personal god or an afterlife... he's said this many times... but he seems to view the universe as something more though... maybe i've read more into that book...
i found this on leo kim's website...
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”~~~Carl Sagan don't confuse spirituality with a personal god, at least try not to...
i read leo kim's book Healing the Rift: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Spirituality and it was pretty interesting reading...
Quote: About Leo Kim
Leo Kim is a scientist and biotechnology executive with over 50 scientific publications and patents. Leo’s journey includes research and management in chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, information technology, molecular biology, microbiology, physics, and clinical trial studies. He has been active in new pharmaceutical and biotechnology disease treatment modalities as well as alternative medicine regimes. He studied with Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel, and many others who offer spiritual based supplements or alternatives to traditional healing. Leo has a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of Kansas and continued his education as a research associate at MIT. Leo is a CEO and general partner in a biotechnology venture capital firm where he is tracking the progress of thousands of companies utilizing the latest developments in science.
Einstein on God
i love in the end when dawkins tries to include einstein among the athiest group when clearly he was a pantheist... at least to me he seems to be...
when i first joined Utube, i was actually looking for answers into cosmology and stumbled on this channel when i did my first search... i sub to about 140 channels, this channel was my first subscription...
Symphony of Science - 'Our Place in the Cosmos' (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)~~~you might find it a bit corny though... i thought it was awesome because it made me think about the possibilities...
if you think you're above the two books i suggested, look into richard feynman, he used to teach at cal tech and won a noble prize... he was never hesitant to simply say i just don't know... it's interesting though that melodysheep included him in the above video, actually i take that back... i don't find it interesting at all...
the real sad part about the new age movement is the people who turn towards it are looking for something more then a personal god and get caught up in some guru's misapplication of cosmology... to me, all of the above men were cosmological evolutionists... at least they seem that way to me... buddhism or way back ancient hinduism may be able to be adaptive with science... even new age theories embrace science, but it's the belief that one can effect the properties of water or we are children of light that throw people a curve ball they're not willing to swing at... sitting on top of the airport vortex at 10 pm, opened my mind... and later when i discovered there may be as many as 200 billion other galaxies out there i had to ask myself what were the implications... is it possible that at least one other civilization exists? is it possible that they might have reached the stage of the evolution of early man a mere 10,000 tears ahead of us? think where we might be in 10,000 years if we hadn't gone and fucked our nest up... your ipod would be the size of a pea and we'd probably have new energy sources to toss only two possibilities out there... who the fuck knows, maybe we'd all be vegans! i'm far from a new age but i have to sadly admit this would be a much more peaceful place if new age replaced old age...
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