If you really want to start from the beginning in lin.alg I'd also recommend such tutorial. But it doesn't go very far and spends lot of time and examples on simple things.
I'm reading Shankar right now and am purely amazed. Yet, I was looking at Sakurai's ToC and it looks like he's disclosing only some of the deepest concepts in QM while Shankar is very broad (and deep for that matter). So Shankar is, given my opinion, winning the contest :)
Thanks for linear...
As far as I heard, string theory requires really hard math for understanding, more harder than standard lin.alg/dif.eq level and of course, more than algebra.
You see, to read Goethe's original (let's forget about translations for the sake of good example :) ) you need to learn German, to...
mr_coffee, what I'd really advice is to not rely on college courses but rather self-study and work in real projects. Please consider that if you want to be challenging in current conditions you'l have to learn a lot of new technologies by yourself.
College will (should) provide with you solid...
Indeed, first thing I did was going to arXiv.org and searching, then reading everything I could found on topics that interested me. It pretty much shaped after reading dozen papers and going over yet more.
I'm browsing arXiv each day in search for new articles and it's pretty fun should I say...
Hello,
After reading https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=128879", I started to be afraid that same situation applies to me.
Let me describe situation. I'm currently a 15-year old sophomore in HS at US (though I only came to US 2.5 years ago). I have good skills at self-studying: I...
You came to the right place. I've always wanted to practice my recursion explaining skills on someone.
You do know what function is in C++? Imagine it consists of three parts:
1. Stack -- where function plays with its own things that are allocated locally.
2. Body -- where all the calls are...
If you want to code: go to CS. On job interview they won't ask you whether you can or cannot connect circuit, they will ask (at kewl places like MS or Google) to write simple but algorithmic code and I'm positive that you will meet recursion there.
This depends on what area you want to go...
Randall, ugh, I probably see it now -- had some problems with it too :\ Oky-doky, so Bell theorem makes entanglement actually a field which passes "pseudoscientific idiocy" check through statistical predictions?