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Hi,
A group of curious laymen have entrusted me with a curious project. I've been asked to build a small library of physics and math texts that intelligent students and adults may use to self-study the equivalent of a graduate course. This should include a mix of both introductory texts and more advanced comprehensive works. One member has expressed a desire that rigour, elegance and beauty of presentation be emphasised, though this of course has to be balanced by accessibility, since the goal is self-study rather than a formal academic setting. I've some knowledge about physics, so I've managed to compile the following list:
Classical Mechanics:
01)Kleppner and Kolenkow
02)Marion Thornton
03)Goldstein
04)Landau
05)Greiner-Point Particles and Relativity
06)Greiner-Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics
07)VI Arnold
08)Sussman-Structure and Interpretation
09)Coulson-Wave Motion
Electrodynamics:
10)Griffiths
11)Greiner
12)Lorrain and Corson
13)Landau
14)Jackson
Fluid Mechanics:
15)Kundu, Cohen
16)Landau
17)Chorin, Marsden
Optics:
18)Guenther
19)Born, Wolf
20)Shen
GTR:
21)Misner, Thornee, Wheeler
22)Wald
23)Weinberg
QM:
24)Griffiths
25)Landau
26)Sakurai
27)Shankar
28)Cohen-Tannoudji
29)Greiner-QM Intro
30)Greiner-QM Symmetries
31)Greiner-Relativistic QM
Statistical Physics:
32)Chandler
33)Greiner
34)Huang
35)Reichl
36)Pathria
37)Landau Lif****z 1 & 2
38)Kardanoff-Statistical QM
QED:
39)Greiner
40)Cohen-Tannoudji
QFT:
41)Peskin, Shroeder
42)Weinberg 1, 2 & 3
43)Griffiths-Intro to Elementary Particles
44)Di Francesco-Conformal Field Theory
String:
45)Zwiebach
46)Polchinski
Solid State:
47)Kittel
48)Ashcroft, Mermin
General:
49)Feynman Lectures in Physics
50)Basdevant-Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics
Mathematics for Physics
01)Isham
02)James Nearing
03)J Lee
04)Nakahara
05)Nash, Sen
06)Szekeres
07)Reed, Simon 1 & 2
I'm sure there are gaps in this list, in the sense that some particular difficulty level in some particular topic is not covered, or a classic book has been omitted. I'll be grateful if you point these out to me. Also, what is the mathematical background required to appreciate Arnold?
As for mathematics, I don't even know which topics are covered in a standard course (and I suspect it's not as standardised as physics) so I'll like recommendations for a structured library like the one given above, such that one may sequentially proceed through it to get a comprehensive education. The goal is once again to strike a balance between intuitive, student-friendly texts and slick, rigorous classics of the sort that make mathematicians salivate.
A few obvious choices are Spivak's and Apostle's calculus, baby and big Rudin (what exactly are the differences between them?), Topology by Munkres, Manifold Calculus by same and Spivak etc. I'll like it if you gave recommendations where the different books complement each other, as I've attempted in the physics list. This is an ambitious project and I feel honoured to be given such a weighty duty. I'll be very grateful for your help.
Thanks a lot.
Molu
A group of curious laymen have entrusted me with a curious project. I've been asked to build a small library of physics and math texts that intelligent students and adults may use to self-study the equivalent of a graduate course. This should include a mix of both introductory texts and more advanced comprehensive works. One member has expressed a desire that rigour, elegance and beauty of presentation be emphasised, though this of course has to be balanced by accessibility, since the goal is self-study rather than a formal academic setting. I've some knowledge about physics, so I've managed to compile the following list:
Classical Mechanics:
01)Kleppner and Kolenkow
02)Marion Thornton
03)Goldstein
04)Landau
05)Greiner-Point Particles and Relativity
06)Greiner-Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics
07)VI Arnold
08)Sussman-Structure and Interpretation
09)Coulson-Wave Motion
Electrodynamics:
10)Griffiths
11)Greiner
12)Lorrain and Corson
13)Landau
14)Jackson
Fluid Mechanics:
15)Kundu, Cohen
16)Landau
17)Chorin, Marsden
Optics:
18)Guenther
19)Born, Wolf
20)Shen
GTR:
21)Misner, Thornee, Wheeler
22)Wald
23)Weinberg
QM:
24)Griffiths
25)Landau
26)Sakurai
27)Shankar
28)Cohen-Tannoudji
29)Greiner-QM Intro
30)Greiner-QM Symmetries
31)Greiner-Relativistic QM
Statistical Physics:
32)Chandler
33)Greiner
34)Huang
35)Reichl
36)Pathria
37)Landau Lif****z 1 & 2
38)Kardanoff-Statistical QM
QED:
39)Greiner
40)Cohen-Tannoudji
QFT:
41)Peskin, Shroeder
42)Weinberg 1, 2 & 3
43)Griffiths-Intro to Elementary Particles
44)Di Francesco-Conformal Field Theory
String:
45)Zwiebach
46)Polchinski
Solid State:
47)Kittel
48)Ashcroft, Mermin
General:
49)Feynman Lectures in Physics
50)Basdevant-Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics
Mathematics for Physics
01)Isham
02)James Nearing
03)J Lee
04)Nakahara
05)Nash, Sen
06)Szekeres
07)Reed, Simon 1 & 2
I'm sure there are gaps in this list, in the sense that some particular difficulty level in some particular topic is not covered, or a classic book has been omitted. I'll be grateful if you point these out to me. Also, what is the mathematical background required to appreciate Arnold?
As for mathematics, I don't even know which topics are covered in a standard course (and I suspect it's not as standardised as physics) so I'll like recommendations for a structured library like the one given above, such that one may sequentially proceed through it to get a comprehensive education. The goal is once again to strike a balance between intuitive, student-friendly texts and slick, rigorous classics of the sort that make mathematicians salivate.
A few obvious choices are Spivak's and Apostle's calculus, baby and big Rudin (what exactly are the differences between them?), Topology by Munkres, Manifold Calculus by same and Spivak etc. I'll like it if you gave recommendations where the different books complement each other, as I've attempted in the physics list. This is an ambitious project and I feel honoured to be given such a weighty duty. I'll be very grateful for your help.
Thanks a lot.
Molu
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