What is Time and Space

You might want to try "Six Not So Easy Peices" by Richard Feynman. I'm in the process of reading it and it is really illuminating with regard to Special Relativity and General Relativity, along with the concept of "symmetry" in physical laws (which was new to me).It has math, most of the math is basic trigonometry and vectors, and he explains vector mathematics in the first chapter.

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I read up on that and it sounds as if you don't know calculus you're toast. I have no calculus whatsoever so it might be well over my head. What do you think?
Right now I'm re-reading Brian Greene's, "The Fabric of the Cosmos".

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I just looked through it and I realized that you do need to know calculus. I didn't really notice for some reason, probably because it is very basic calculus. You should probably read an "Idiots Guide to Calculus" or some book like that, because that is all teh calculus you need for this book.What you need to understand is that dx/dt equals the instantaneous rate of change of x with respect to time, which is velocity. The derivative of that is d'x/d't, which is the instantaneous rate of change of velocity, which is acceleration. That's about as deep as it goes.

Also, he formulates Newton's Second Law as F= d(mv)/dt, as Newton originally did.