Essential Calculus with Applications (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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Since there are tons of people here who're good reviewers what 's you take on this little book ?is it good to use it for physics ?or does not explain things deeply enough?look up the amazon page https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486660974/?tag=pfamazon01-20
 
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Thread '"WHAT IS A QUANTUM FIELD THEORY?" A First Introduction for Mathematicians'

The book is fascinating. If your education includes a typical math degree curriculum, with Lebesgue integration, functional analysis, etc, it teaches QFT with only a passing acquaintance of ordinary QM you would get at HS. However, I would read Lenny Susskind's book on QM first. Purchased a copy straight away, but it will not arrive until the end of December; however, Scribd has a PDF I am now studying. The first part introduces distribution theory (and other related concepts), which...
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