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Nobody explains relativity better than Einstein himself; at least for those not very mathematically sophisticated. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Einstein http://www.schloss-sihlberg.ch/dl/6e29795ff0c56f00fb50a75e83a0eb47/relativity.pdf I read this in eighth grade and it took me...

Which field lines and which mass?

I don't mean to ask if you care or not. I mean to ask whether you think it makes a lot of difference or not if I look for a few formulae while doing the test. In other words, does your test work as an open book exam as well, in your opinion?

ZapperZ, can we cheat in the GRE test mentioned in your first post of this thread? Because, while I scored above 75th percentile, I had to cheat a bit. I knew how to do the problems, but, I didn't remember all the formulae, especially in the EM part.

I strongly second the "University Physics" recommendation. Also the good old Halliday Resnick will be good for your purposes.

I would strongly recommend the Variational Principles course for any sub-field in theoretical physics and you should also take a look at the Functional Analysis series; it should be quite useful for QM and QFTs. I feel obligated to tell you that I haven't taken either of these courses and I'm...

I don't think "divide" would be the proper word, but, thinking along similar lines, it will take countless paths given countless slits. You just have to keep on adding the amplitudes for any number of slits and as the number of slits approaches infinity you get Feynman's path integral! I...

Following advice is for learning from a problem solving approach, specifically in trying to approach olympiad type problems: I think the best starting point is "Geometry Revisited" by H.S.M Coxeter. Going through all the problems in it is a must; they are the best part of any Euclidean geometry...

@bhobba: That is just great! That's exactly the kind of book I wanted. Thank you for your help.

@deluks917: That is a graduate text and that too for math grads. I just went through its table of contents and as much as I love math, I don't know all that much of it :D So I want something that develops the math a little more gently.

Exactly what I meant. I can't do calulational stuff unless I have to, like for a course. Derivations and proofs I can do or read all day long :D

I suggest the time honored and established way. Learn the math you are supposed to right now. Do your A-level math as quickly as possible; maybe a few months or even lesser. That will have some calculus in it. Then just brush up on some concepts A-level maths sometimes misses like Taylor series...

I didn't mean it so strongly. What I meant is I want a book more along the lines of Dirac and Neumann which develop mathematics and theory more formally and less long the lines of Griffiths, the stated aim of which is teaching how to 'do' QM and cares less about math and theory.

I have a good enough grasp of basics of QM at the level of Griffiths and Binney. Anyways, I want to start a more advanced book. I have my heart set at starting one of the following Dirac's "Principles of QM" John von Neumann's "Mathematical Foundations of QM" L. Ballentine's "QM: A Modern...

How about learning addition with real number axioms in kindergarten? :p