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I am working with the pdf of a textbook and often find the need to add comments clarifying some issue for future reference. Can anyone tell me how to add greek alphabet and glyphs like letters with carets for example ^ for unit vectors in a adobe acrobat comments? Thanks in advance!

Might be a bit late but... I've found that the book by Riley, Hobson and Bence, while being more comprehensive and less cook-booky/algorithmic than boas, is more readable than arfken. Another one I like is the "Mathematical Methods" book by Hassani. Although I agree that I haven't found one...

How do we show that a vector field whose curl is zero is necessarily a gradient field?

I have seen conservative vector fields being defined as satisfying either of the two following conditions: The line integral of the vector field around a closed loop is zero. The line integral of the vector field along a path is the function of the endpoints of the curve. It is apparent to me...

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".