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Heartstopper · Season 1, Episode 3, "Kiss"

Isaac's physics for fun: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan)

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By episode three he's reading a physics textbook for fun. It's the sequel to Leonard Susskind's 2013 bestseller The Theoretical Minimum, so Isaac read the first one too, and he is the only teenager in Kent who can say that.

Sources: Every Book Isaac Reads in 'Heartstopper', Netflix Tudum · Heartstopper's book references, Varsity · The Ultimate Heartstopper Reading List, Fountaindale Public Library · Isaac Henderson's reading list, Beathes bibliotek
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman · 2014 · nonfiction

Susskind, a Stanford physicist, built the series out of night classes for adults who wanted the real math instead of the documentary version. Episode three is called Kiss. Everyone else is busy with that. Isaac is busy with wave functions.

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