Introductory Definition and 357 Threads

Hello, I was wondering if any of you can suggest some good introductory textbooks on GR around the graduate level. Thank you for your time. Yours Truly, TK.

I'm looking for a nice easy to read introductory book in physics (classical physics ?) for someone who has two years of university level math but knows nothing of physics. To be more precise, I want a book (preferebly cheap), that won't take too much effort to read and gives me enough...

Hi, I'm a high school senior in my first semester of Calculus, so my math is pretty limited at the moment. I was wondering if you guys could recommend any introductory number theory books that you think are about at my level. Any suggestions would be really appreciated. Also, sorry if I...

I need a recommendation for the best introductory real analysis book to use for self-study. I haven't really had much experience with rigorous proofs and also need a good introduction to that. This coming year I will be using Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis, so any book that would...

Hello everyone, I'm a bit of beginner to the more complicated algebra and geometry. I am going into grade 12 next september, but I'd like to get a headstart on the material, and I am wondering what introductory "advanced" (for say) Algebra books were of benifet to you. A first year university...

I am currently beginning to conduct something like an introductory, very elementary, seminar on string theory at my local institution. The plan is to perform the whole thing in parallel on the web. The lecture notes are being published bit by bit at the String Coffee Table, namely in the...

I am a first year university student (and have taken chemistry and physics through high school, and still do) and was wondering if anyone had suggestions for reading that would give me a good introduction to the basic background ideas behind quantum physics. I've already learned a good deal...