Gift for 16 year old Aspiring astrophysicist,,,, I'm an outsider here, so please bear with me.
I have a 16-year-old nephew interested in the field of astrophysics and am looking for a birthday gift.  I had thought about a book on astronomy, but don't see that field listed as a core pre-requisite for that career.  Is knowledge of astronomy a core pre-requisite/useful for this profession?
Thank you
there is a series of educational Japanese manga comics books called &quot;The Manga Guides&quot; they explain a particular subject of science and maths (like Physics, Relativity, Regression Analysis, Statistics, etc) and they are fun to read, I gifted the one on Physics to my 14-year old nephew and he liked it. Also the book has actual exercises between chapters and explained examples, and each book are independent, so you are not obligated to read all of them to finish the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manga_Guides#The_Manga_Guide_to_Physics
There is one on the Universe and General Relativity too. I read the one on Relativity out of curiosity and it was very entertaining