Insights Some sins in physics didactics - comments

[atyy]

Also, we are not creating robots - hands and feet are irrelevant for an automatic mathematician.

But doesn't it need to hoard chalk to be a real mathematician?

http://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicia...a-1711008881?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

 

[Septim]

Nice post together with the comprehensive mathematical treatment. Although I am a physics graduate I am having hard time grasping the mathematical part since my quantum mechanics and classical mechanics are a bit rusty. What should I particularly revise to get this?

Thanks

 

[bhobba]

Nice post together with the comprehensive mathematical treatment. Although I am a physics graduate I am having hard time grasping the mathematical part since my quantum mechanics and classical mechanics are a bit rusty. What should I particularly revise to get this?

For the QM bit - Ballentine - Quantum Mechanics - A Modern Development.

For Classical Mechanics - Landau - Mechanics.

Be amazed at the rock bottom of what a lot of physics is about - symmetry.

Thanks
Bill

 

[Feeble Wonk]

For the QM bit - Ballentine - Quantum Mechanics - A Modern Development.

For Classical Mechanics - Landau - Mechanics.

Be amazed at the rock bottom of what a lot of physics is about - symmetry.

Thanks
Bill

Leon Lederman's book "Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe" makes your point (symmetry being at the foundation of most physical concepts) very well. It's far less mathematically demanding than the other sources you've offered... which, of course, is why I was better able to understand what he was saying. It also gave me a much greater appreciation for the work of Emmy Noether.