How to select one from these two books? (Physical Mathematics)

[Photonico]

Dear everyone,

I'm an HDR student in Condensed Matter Physics. I want to enhance my math ability with the aim is learning physics.
I found two books, they seem all fit my purpose.

1. Mathematical Physics 2nd by S.Hassani
2. Physical Mathematics 2nd by K.Cahill

I want to choose one of them to learn because the time is precious. I need some valuable advice about it.

Cheers,
Lu

 

[malawi_glenn]

Hassani covers more topics.

 

[Frabjous]

Read a chapter from each. Pick the one you learn more from.

 

[Photonico]

Hassani covers more topics.

I found that Hassani's book has more advanced topics, but Cahill has many introductory topics which are not contained in Hassani's book, such as Statistics, Monte Carlo Methods, and Renormalization...

 

[malawi_glenn]

you could do a list of topics that you want to learn, and then do a plan