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for physics, leaning more towards the theoretical/mathematical side than applications, if possible.

I'm taking a second course in thermodynamics and statmech, but it has always been a subject I have found unintuitive. Could anyone recommend a clear, concise textbook with a strong emphasis on mathematics/ mathematical physics? Thank you for any suggestions.

I'm trying to read Brian Hall's book "Quantum Theory for Mathematicians". While (I think) I have a basic grasp of most of the prerequisites, I don't know any measure theory. According to the appendix, presumed knowledge includes "the basic notions of measure theory, including the concepts of...

As far as I know, the MPhys year is just the same as "Year 5" for Edinburgh undergrad students. If that's the case, this page has a list/descriptions of the courses you could take: http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/15-16/dpt/utmapym.htm

This webpage has some useful recommendations for relativity books, at a wide range of levels: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/rel_booklist.html

Thank you, these look great.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this- Can anyone suggest a good (ideally online) resource for challenging complex analysis problems? The ones I have found so far have been mainly computational- I'm looking for conceptually harder problems, preferably requiring lots of proofs, which...

If you do not have any teachers who can give you a reference and give formal predicted grades, you should talk to the universities directly and explain your situation, so that they can factor this in when considering your application. If you email the undergraduate admissions for each university...

The difference between mathematical and theoretical physics at my university is that the mathematical physics students have no compulsory lab sessions, do extra pure-maths modules, and take slightly different versions of some courses (like classical mechanics, complex analysis, quantum) than the...

This site might be also helpful for physics-specific rankings: http://www.myphysicscourse.org/ as whole-university rankings are not always useful. All the universities you mentioned are good; it all depends on which individual modules you want to take, and which city you would prefer to live in...

Thanks for the suggestions, the Quantum Theory for Mathematicians has exactly the material I was looking for.

Thanks, this looks like a good book. It seems like it covers most of the topics in my course, but I'm not sure about peturbation theory- does Ballentine cover that at all? I'm looking for a rigourous book partly because I am interested in learning more about ideas like Hilbert spaces, but also...

I'm trying to decide between Dirac, Shankar, Mandl, Griffiths, Gasiorowicz, and Sakurai for an undergrad QM course. It is the first "proper" quantum course after a basic introduction in the modern physics class, but apparently it is particularly mathematically challenging, so I'm looking for a...

Thank you- that's really helpful!

Sorry- I would like to study some 2nd-year courses that I have the prerequisites for but not the time/credits to study next year, so I am looking for material at a fairly introductory level. There are no recommended books and the lecture notes are not made public, but these are some of the main...