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Other Collection of Free Online Math Books and Lecture Notes (part 1)

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Other Collection of Free Online Physics Books and Lecture Notes (Part 2)

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Other List of STEM Masterworks in Physics, Mechanics, Electrodynamics...

  • Demystifier
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Support PF: Buy your textbooks here

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Other Technical books that have been read cover to cover

  • loop quantum gravity
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Chemistry Concise General Chemistry book for self study

  • bloviate88
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Other I would like to get recommendations for graduate level physics books

  • Rick16
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A review of Max Tegmark's book Our Mathematical Universe

  • sevensages
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Quantum Why so expensive? "Fields and Their Quanta"

  • Trysse
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Quantum Textbook Sequence Request: Entering B.Sc. Physics (Theoretical Focus)

  • okabe rintarou
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Other Good recent layman's overview of the sciences

  • bloviate88
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Classical Self studying Taylor's Classical Mechanics

  • euok124
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Foundations Gödel's Theorems and Zermelo's Axioms: A Firm Foundation of Maths

  • Hill
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List of errata available for "QFT in a Nutshell" 2nd edition A. Zee?

  • Ferdinandus
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What did you do with your old college textbooks?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Other What are you reading now? (STEM only)

  • Demystifier
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Quantum mechanics book recommendations

  • hmparticle9
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Intro Math Learning Mathematical Problem Solving

  • tuxscholar
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Intro Math Recommendations for Math book series for preschool onward

  • Useful nucleus
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Analysis Need Self study book for Fourier Series and Generalized Functions

  • jstrunk
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Intro Physics I need help to pick a physics book (AP Physics 1, algebra based and beyond)

  • jo_rdz
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Complementary resources to Feynman Lectures

  • seba_
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Intro Physics What is the best conceptual high school physics book?

  • Dr Doak
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Other What are some good books for learning Galois Theory?

  • Math100
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Other Complex analysis or calculus?

  • Neutrin0
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Intro Physics Physics Introduction book

  • cosmicvoid
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Foundations A rigorous approach to learn Mathematics

  • tuxscholar
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Astronomy Looking for a book on the effects of orbits on celestial observations

  • Frabjous
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Particle Neutrino Particle Physics Book

  • Neutrin0
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Textbook Suggestions For Lasers and Laser Ablation

  • gmb00043
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Review/refresher of college physics: textbook recommendations request

  • 1940LaSalle
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Quantum Errata to the big Yellow Book of CFT

  • AndreasC
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Intro Math Hassani's books on Mathematical Physics/Methods

  • Parisi
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Engineering Looking for recommendations for reference/textbooks on Flight Dynamics

  • boneh3ad
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Intro Physics Learn Python: Top Book Recommendations for Beginners

  • robotkid786
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Classical Books with a more theoretical approach to turbulence and DNS

  • Klaus3
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Quantum "WHAT IS A QUANTUM FIELD THEORY?" A First Introduction for Mathematicians

  • bhobba
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Number Theory Suggestions for Analytic Number Theory textbooks

  • pcm
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Applied Blennow to follow up Altland?

  • Vmax
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Book recommendation after Sakurai Modern Quantum Physics

  • planck999
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Opinions/personal experiences on the following four CompSci books

  • elias001
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Solid State Ashcroft and Mermin: revised edition

  • chimay
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Classical How is Jackson’s Electrodynamics taught during undergraduate?

  • gfgfgf
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Need a book on Modern Physics to supplement Griffiths QM

  • hmparticle9
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Topology Introductory Topology online textbook recommendations

  • mcastillo356
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Quantum Modern Quantum Mechanics 3rd Ed: J. J. Sakurai & Jim Napolitano Review

  • Vectronix
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Suggestions for HS geometry book (proofs)

  • Marin12
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Calculus Marsden 1979 vs Marsden 6th edition

  • Homelilly
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Intro Physics A New Free Ukrainian Language Undergraduate Physics Study Guide

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Astrophysics Introductory books for Astronomy/Astrophysics Olympiad preparation

  • Homelilly
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Relativity Lorentz factor in textbooks on Special Relativity

  • Trysse
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Other Peter Olver Vs Strauss for an introduction to PDEs

  • Hamza M khan
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Classical Is there a major difference between 'Fundamentals of Physics' editions?

  • member 761155
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A book for a lifetime

  • tuxscholar
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Calculus Books with fully solved problems vs just final results?

  • user079622
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Books on Weak Interaction

  • deuteron
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Looking for good books explaining Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics

  • mathisrad
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Quantum Landau vs Griffith QM textbook

  • hagopbul
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Other Recommendation for Mathematics for Physicist and Engineers book

  • trv
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Books on cosmology with solution manuals

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Book for self-learning calculus and learning in a foreign language?

  • user079622
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Engineering Engineering Mechanics vs. physics majors' Newtonian Mechanics books

  • mad mathematician
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Classical Best place to buy math/physics books, textbooks online?

  • user079622
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Algebra The art of problem solving vs. openstax textbooks

  • nbafitis28
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Classical Principles of Physics by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker

  • JKuo37
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Best books of astrophotography

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Quantum Looking for upper division modern physics book

  • dainceptionman_02
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Quantum Constructing Quantum Mechanics by Duncan

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Calculus Thoughts on the book 'Second Year Calculus' (Bressoud)

  • mathisrad
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Classical Old mechanics book that describes the scientific method first

  • DrBanana
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Looking for 3 missing pages from Cartan's book

  • mma
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Engineering Books with/without worked out problems and exercises in Power Processing

  • mad mathematician
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Other Physics puzzle/problem books at the undergraduate/graduate level?

  • ergospherical
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Books/courses that reflect Gian Carlo Rota's thoughts

  • imwhatim
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Algebra Contest math - books, problem sets, videos, etc..

  • Heisenberg7
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Astronomy Use of Standard Candles in Measuring Distances in Astronomy

  • MatinSAR
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Astrophysics Question regarding two specific books on stellar structure

  • Frimus
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Quantum Identifying an old quantum mechanics textbook

  • julian
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Classical Best Russian/Soviet Physics Books

  • phish21
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Classical Trying to pinpoint the name of an old mechanics textbook

  • pines-demon
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Particle Any book recomendation for learning about particles?

  • Barbarian
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Classical Good book recommendations for the introduction of hydrodynamics

  • wuy252300
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Oxford Dictionary of Physics

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Solid State Minimal background books for Condensed Matter Theory

  • Pirx
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Plasma Books on Plasma Instabilities?

  • Woolford180
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Classical Which books are good for reviewing classical mechanics?

  • hagopbul
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Cosmology Weinberg's The First Three Minutes

  • gmax137
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Classical Question about Open Library (borrowing books online)

  • hagopbul
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Quantum Looking for good book on Molecular Electronics

  • Lahearle
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Books on D Operator Method

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Books to read before Arnold's Classical Mechanics

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Relativity Is Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, Wheeler outdated?

  • Joker93
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Astrophysics Best textbook on plasma physics

  • jqmhelios
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Prob/Stats What is the best intuitive combinatorics book for beginners?

  • Heisenberg7
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Other What to do with my old physical textbooks?

  • nbo10
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"Statistical Thermodynamics" book by Erwin Schrödinger

  • SummeryWinter
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Atomic "Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure" by Gerhard Herzberg

  • SummeryWinter
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Other List of STEM Masterworks: THE SUMMARY

  • Juanda
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Applied A question about mathematics textbooks for physicists

  • Florian Geyer
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Classical What are the best intermediate Newtonian mechanics textbooks?

  • Quantum55151
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Intro Physics Serway Physics Interactive Tools

  • kelmcguir
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Calculus What Is the Best Calculus Book for Self-Learners?

  • Heisenberg7
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Solid State Good Condensed Matter Physics Books and Semiconductor Physics Books

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