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What do you recommend then for e&m at a similar level.

They have a more advanced version with the third author as krane called "Physics" which comes in 2 volumes. That according to me is the most comprehensive general calculus based physics textbooks.

I think that's good advice. Maybe I'll take a refresher using something higher level.

Well people who prepare for physics Olympiad routinely solve problems from books like Purcell, Griffiths and Morin and grinding out probability and statistics from a math methods book is not impossible. If I encounter something which I clearly am not ready for like differential geometry I give...

Lol I'm not sure I'm ready for Arnold.

I did finish quite a bit of analysis and I ended up studying prob and stats at a bit lower level.Differential geometry gave me headache so I gave up on it. I read a couple of chapters of Purcell but then ran out of steam. I do plan on returning to all the stuff but I have time constraints cause...

So I am thinking of going through Goldstein's classical mechanics to learn the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms but am concerned because I've seen threads claiming that there are serious scientific errors in the book. I can't remember the specific thread. If so can someone recommend a...

Oxford has A TON OF lecture notes and problem sheets here: https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/

Try Tenenbaum and Pollard. It's a bit verbose but has answers and is less cook-booky. Or try Coddington which has next to no applications and is very dry (and short). Both coddington and Tenenbaum Pollard don't treat PDEs at all. MIT OCW has two courses on ODEs one at the same level as you...

I came to know her because she was Born's granddaughter.

I'm pretty comfortable in English. And yes I did run a Google search. Most people recommended this book called "More math into LaTeX" by Gratzer and others recommended "The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e".

Then someone needs to write "The unreasonable effectiveness of humans at doing science"

Just finished Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Natural Sciences" and the part on the uniqueness of physical theories was the first time I consciously thought about it. And it's refreshingly short.

Okay so I find myself with quite a bit of time on my hands and I have always been a messy note taker so I decided to learn LaTEX just for the heck of it. I searched for previous threads but they were generally confusing. I have very minimum programming experience. So I would really appreciate it...

What I personally do is find a lecture series on the topic and watch it at 2x and absorb as much as I can. Then when I read the textbook I can assimilate more quickly. Then I try to re-derive everything on paper from first principles and try to write as if an idiot (future me) will read them...