Technical books that have been read cover to cover

[loop quantum gravity]

I would like to know which technical books have you read cover to cover and solved the problems with or without external help from outside?

So far I only finished reading Srednicki's and Peskin's & Schroeder's.

Iv'e got a lot of stuff to read ad infinitum


I also completed reading a lot of technical books in Hebrew from the OU in math.
Contribue your input,
Cheers! but don't drink alcohol and derive...

 

[DaveE]

All of the problems? No one does every exercise, do they?

I'm pretty sure we did Goodman, Fourier Optics, cover to cover at school. Also maybe Protter-Morrey, Calculus, in high school. Otherwise I've found it very rare for an instructor not to exclude parts.

In my working life, probably just Colonel Wm. T. McLyman, Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook. Neither a great feat nor a great book.

Cover to cover just isn't my style, usually some of it is a waste of effort.

 

[loop quantum gravity]

All of the problems? No one does every exercise, do they?

I'm pretty sure we did Goodman, Fourier Optics, cover to cover at school. Also maybe Protter-Morrey, Calculus, in high school. Otherwise I've found it very rare for an instructor not to exclude parts.

In my working life, probably just Colonel Wm. T. McLyman, Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook. Neither a great feat nor a great book.

Cover to cover just isn't my style, usually some of it is a waste of effort.

For my UG studies in Newtonian mechanics for physicists I did the exercises by myself, with the help from some people in the net back then (I am quite old).
I am not sure if I ever finished reading that book, but I am quite sure that I did come to do all the exercises that involved SR (I am refering to the blue old edition of Kleppner and Kolenkow).
But the only books that I can attest to read cover to cover are the ones above. And it took me some time to digest all the derivations.
I also tried to read Cohen-Tannodji vol 1 and 2 but it was too much; now I see there is a new edition of cohen-tannodji and also SM.

No rest for the wicked...

 

[pines-demon]

For my UG studies in Newtonian mechanics for physicists I did the exercises by myself, with the help from some people in the net back then (I am quite old).
I am not sure if I ever finished reading that book, but I am quite sure that I did come to do all the exercises that involved SR (I am refering to the blue old edition of Kleppner and Kolenkow).
But the only books that I can attest to read cover to cover are the ones above. And it took me some time to digest all the derivations.
I also tried to read Cohen-Tannodji vol 1 and 2 but it was too much; now I see there is a new edition of cohen-tannodji and also SM.

No rest for the wicked...

I have a friend that during undergrad did all of the problems of Cohen-Tannoudji.

 

[mathwonk]

I don't recall how far into the book I got before I quit doing it, but when I was first hired as a college calc teacher, using Thomas and Finney, 4th edition, I worked every problem at the end of the section we would cover the next day, so I would not be embarrassed if a student asked how to do one of them. It did not take too long until I noticed they were so repetitious, that this was quite unnecessary, even boring. But I kept up working a representative number, including many of the harder ones. I learned a lot from that book, especially after teaching it through maybe twice. The early problems were just simple minded drill on basic facts, but the later ones sometimes imparted new and interesting information.
A very strong grad student I met at Harvard, now a well known researcher, told me he worked all the problems in Hartshorne, Algebraic Geometry!