/sci/ - Science & Math

Here's my scientific bookshelf. Mostly about physics, but there's place for a bit of CS ones, latin textbooks from highschool and my diares.

How to look at bookshelves without hurting my neck ?

>>10306297

> he needs a whole book on path integrals

yep, that's a physicists alright , definitely going into my cringe c ollection

>>10307510
embrace the path integral brother, they are god tier

>>10307861
enlighten me on path integrals, show me the light, show me the path brother

>>10306297 >>10307510 >>10307861 >>10308612

*blocks your path integral*

>>10306297
>electronics

Why?

>>10306297
Kittel is good but it's pretty basic. Griffiths only if you are an undergrad, same for Robinson (but both are good). The book on path integrals is useless. I'd substitute Peskin/Schroeder for something more intuitive +something more rigorous, like Srednicki/Zee/Klauber+Weinberg.

The first 4 are very long for the material covered but the rest I really liked

>>10308861
Eh. Peskin/Schroeder is solid stuff and has a good number of examples that are still relevant for postgrads and postdocs. The books you mentioned are fine as well, but I'm not too sure if I'd prefer them over P/S or Itzkyson/Zuber for example.

The first 4 are very long for the material covered but the rest I really liked

The first 4 are very long for the material covered but the rest I really liked

>>10306297
there are many like it but this one is mine

>>10308929
remove the stickers idiot

>>10308929
>used >used >used >used

>>10306297
t. grad student

>>10309510
Is that a fucking bust of Lenin?

>>10309957
Yep, it's a candle bust, so I can burn him at some point

>>10309510
OP,how many hours a day do you study, and what's your schedule like?

>buying books instead of printing low quality bootlegs and downloading pdfs

Here's a sample. Got roughly 200 academic and professional books.

>>10309677
>old editions
>library sticker

Student lounge books?

>>10306297
Kittel is pretty bad.
I'm not sure about Peskin-Schröder past the first 300 pages. I agree that Srednicki is a better variant. Weinberg is a bit of a meme, practiclally speaking

I always wanted to study that path integral tomb, but it's not really a didactical text and flashes one with a lot of details right from the start.

>>10307510
You might be confusing path integrals with line integrals here.

>>10310443
What's the "Other Derivatives" one?

>>10310330
Like eight hours of work everyday. I'll get to the office around ten. Seminar for about an hour some days and then an hour for lunch. Leave around six or seven.

>>10310457
There are many reasons for buying old or used books. Rarity, price, etc.

>>10310462
>What's the "Other Derivatives" one?
John C Hull: Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives.
Well-known introductory book on quantitative finance

>>10310462
>What's the "Other Derivatives" one?

I'm guessing Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by Hull. It's a popular finance book for normies.

>>10310482
Ah, right, I had that book in my hand before.

On this occasion, let me shill my youtube channel. I think I'll do a video on the Ito calculus next

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcrSMnEYhIPX_p127jI23qw/videos

>>10310462
>>10306297

Recommendations for getting to the level to read Peskin and Shroeder's QFT? It's been a while since I've looked at a quantum book and have been meaning to get back into it.

>>10310511
Srednicki is a fine book. Look through sakuri first to give yourself a reminder

>>10310511
I'm not sure how there can be an answer to your question if you don't speak of the level you're at.
Generally, you get there by studying physics. Zee is a book that's super fuzzy but a nice bridge if you already know basic quantum mechanics.

>>10310511
Quantum Mechanics - Franz Schwabl
Advanced Quantum Mechanics - Franz Schwabl

>>10310511
Sakurai - Modern Quantum Mechanics
Sakurai - Advanced Quantum Mechanics

>>10310511
https://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Physics_Textbook_Recommendations

>>10310528
Yea forgot to mention that. I took a course in QM that used Griffiths but I've forgotten much of it over the years.

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>>10310553
>>10310524
Thanks

I need a good book on numerical analysis, which should:
1. give me a solid foundation, so that intuitively understand the topics covered and why they were approached that way
2. be a reference in the future whenever I'm looking for something on the topic
3. have enough depth that I can continue learning from it long after getting said foundations.

Any recommendations?

>>10310626
If you want a book with decent pseudo code in it I suggest Numerical Analysis by Burden and Faires:

https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/numerical_analysis_9th.pdf

Serves as a good exercise book too.

>>10310640
Looks great! Would it cover my requirements?
I'd like to buy a good book to have on the subject.

Books from school

>>10310677
CivilEng fag detected

Rate me.

>>10311121
>pleb tier calculus
>pleb tier algorithms
>pleb tier databases
>pleb tier linear algebra
>pleb tier algebraic programming
>commie shit
>sand nigger shit
>fedora shit
>pleb tier physics
>pleb tier C# language
>he seriously fucking needed a book for job interviews (you can't make this shit up)
>pleb tier discrete
>1989 called, they want their programming language back
>more C#/.net/SE shit
>apple shit
>lel hackerman in a scripting language
>not even the dino book
>too stupid to put his jornan peterson right side up
>also buying jornan peterson shit
>Is that a fucking [An]ime Pictures book top left?!

0/10, typical cs retard

>>10311449
This man is based af. 100% accurate rate.

>>10308861
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>>10310524
>>10310528
>>10310553
>>10310556
>>10310619
Didn't know this was qm and qft book recommendations thread kek

>>10311449
>>10311461

>software engineer

at least he was courteous enough to post photo in an easily readable orientation.

>>10310677
>engineers need books to use AutoCAD
>every engineer I know still can't draw in CAD to save his life

The virgin engineer vs the Chad draftsman.

>>10311449
>>Is that a fucking [An]ime Pictures book top left?!

Crime Pictures.

>>10311479
Snuff is illegal.

>>10306297
How is it remotely possible to hobby research when most of books are overpriced? Most scientist use libgen. You would be retard to buy books

>>10308929
>Not using Howard Anton’s linear algebra
You are doing it wrong.

>>10306297
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>>10311121
What's the point of keeping books after you've read them? Surely they'd be more useful donated to a charity or library, or cheaply sold to students.

>>10311560
>>10311585
I take both of these into consideration when buying books. I only want to keep those that will continue to be a useful resource for me in the future, something I can always go back to if I want to relearn something. I'm not going to waste money on a shitty book that I'll only use for a semester.

>>10311585
As a researcher, you sometimes need books to refresh yourself. Or as a reference. Also, I much prefer having a physical copy for reading than an electronic copy

>>10311585
Reference is a real thing. Also, any book worth reading is worth keeping.

>>10311585
I like to hoard books. My goal is to have a big house with my own personal library in this kind of style.

>>10313108
2/3

>>10313108
>>10313110
3/3

>>10313108
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>>10313116
That's kind of autistic but I fully understand. I just want my own corner with a library, a comfy, well lit place to read books and keep notes, and maybe a desk if it's big enough to be a room.
Pic related is the dream.

>>10313157
... but I'd be perfectly happy with just a corner

>>10313157
>>10313173
Thats pretty cool, friend. I respect that. Good luck and thanks for the photos.

>>10311058
Wow nothing gets past this guy.

>>10306297
FUCKING WHAT

>>10311449
i enjoyed this post other than the ignorance about the modern importance of C

>>10314542
>modern importance of C
Are you doing stuff with ABI's ? use C : don't use C;

Also K&R C / C89 / ANSI C is outdated as fuck. Declaring your variables at the start of a function/block is fucking CanCer. At least use C99.

>>10313108
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>>10313173
>will never have this level of comfy
No really I love living in a studio apartment next to a highway with balcony bogans on one side and a chink colony on the other.

Oh fuck it's my time to shine.

>>10314711
You'll work yourself out of it if you dislike it anon. Or you could go the other way and transform it into something comfy.
You'd be surprised how much of a difference mood lighting (and better lighting) makes, along with organizing everything and decluttering your space.
As for the noise, my upstairs neighbors have the noisiest children I've ever seen, and I've worked at a hotel so I've seen A LOT of noisy little shits.
The way I combat it is by using video game soundtracks while studying/working, my current favorite is the Gris OST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxM1SX35-GU).). I don't even game but these are engineered to keep you focused. I also love the one from Ori and the blind forest.
Keep your head up.

>>10314724
Thanks anon, I'll get there.

>>10310457
No, I'm just a poor undergrad. Abebooks is my main line

>>10314713
Are they any good? Plot seems to be pretty interesting from what I can tell in the wikipedia article, but critics seem to think theyre shit...

I need another shelf for math books

>>10317252
>Godel Escher Bach
I thought only pseuds and normies took this book seriously.

>>10309093
based

>>10317252
>2 proof books and logic for philosophy
>2 calculus books
>2 baby analysis books

doubt those are your books and not the university's

>>10317352
They're all mine. One of the proofs books was used by a class I graded for and the prof gave it to me. Someone gave me the calc book on the right, I used it for practice problems. And my baby analysis I and II classes were taught by different profs who used different books. I'm just an undergrad.

>>10317305
It is definitely flawed but there are things I still like about it. Before I went to university, it helped spark my interest in math.

>>10317378
>I'm just an undergrad
>Serre's books
right...

>>10317493
they look brand new

How's pic related for self-studying Abstract Algebra?

The three at the end are library books. My favorites are Weinberg's qm and qft books, Zee's qft, Artin's algebra, Milnor's differential topology, Geroch's mathematical physics, Atiyah and Macdonald's commutative algebra, Hermann's lie groups. Left out of the photo are some linear algebra books, Nering, Friedberg et al, Lang, and Griffiths' electrodynamics. Also Garrity's electricity and magnetism for mathematicians. Soon to arrive are Rotman's advanced modern algebra, Guillemin and Pollack's differential topology, and Lieb and Loss's analysis.

I'm not deep in algebraic geometry yet, just a basic course on classical varieties. I'll probably look at Qing Liu and Hartshorne's books eventually. The books I have seem alright right now, An Invitation to algebraic geometry and Lectures on Curves... are especially friendly. Sagan's book on the symmetric group is very interesting, it'll be good to get some exposure to combinatorics. Maybe eventually I'll study the more theoretical physics books at the top right. I'm not really sure where to go in that though, it's pretty confusing.

>>10319043
It's good. Artin is worth a look at all. Not a big fan of the other standards like Herstein, Dummit and Foote, Lang, Hungerford. There are some easier books like Fraleigh but I don't have any experience with those, I studied algebra later on.

>>10311585
People rarely read everything within these books. Also references are important, you will forget things eventually.

>>10311560
>>10310457
I bought the majority of books in this picture for under $20 used. A few at $30. None above.

>>10310511
Lahiri and Pal is a friendly qft book to start. Shankar's qm is sufficient.

>>10310462
Weinberg is the only book that's actually thorough in building qft. And it's hard to find better books for the later volumes. It does take a while to read though. I don't agree that Srednicki is better than Peskin, they're about equal, good at different things.

>>10317493
I'm an undergrad.

>>10317493
They tie into undergrad research I'm doing

>>10309510
>cow tools
based

>>10319230
Thanks, I'll also give a look at Artin

>>10319230
Judging by some of your book choices, many books are way out of your league (like Weinberg's and Kaku's QFT). Are you just collecting, or buying in advance?

>>10320302
Which book choices? I've gotten rid of tons of books, I used to have at least double what you're seeing. Like shankar and sakurai, which I have no use for now. The easy books you see are books I'm planning on reviewing again. I'm on weinberg 2 right now. I found weinberg 3 at a nice price hardcover so I picked it up early. Kaku's not that advanced a book is it? I haven't looked at it much, I only bought it for the novelty and it was really cheap.

>>10313173
comfy as fuck

>>10319043
It sucks.

Bump

bump

Rate me faggots

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>>10324114
Bruh, It's not my fault, I was forced to take it!!!

If anything, the fact that I have one of /lit/'s masterpieces should make up for such a shortcoming.

>>10324142
Faggots not welcome

I'm a grad student and I've never read a physics textbook in my life.

>>10324142
>blotters in the shot
Happy travels, my dude

>>10324398
it's the only thing that made that book readable. Postmodernism my ass

>>10324324
Lucky boi

>>10324057
>>10324114
>readings on diversity and social justice
cringe/10 i hope you're enjoying your 1st year of college

Bookshelf threads are mainly virtue signalling.

Although sometimes recommendations are nice.

>>10309182
>buy new goy
>gib the big jew money

used is the way to go

EE PhD Student

>>10309093
bless

Hey guys, I barely passed linear algebra by cramming everything in a week and then forgot it all, only for it to come and bite me in the ass years later since I need to learn it again now because it's actually useful.
I would like to think I'm a lot wiser now, studying better and I love learning. Which textbook should I study to learn it all from the ground up, but also get insights on how and why everything ties together like it does?

>>10326778
Why did you take biochem?

>>10327127
pls halp dear fellow scholars

>>10311449
imagine insulting kernighan's C book
>calls cs major pleb
>knows jack about cs

>>10327375
don't reply to these people.

>>10327183
I did a 1.5 year stint in a neuroscience PhD program before this. Also the antennas that I design are supposed to change their operational frequency based on the presence of some biological relevant analtye, so biology has worked its way into my shit.

>>10324324
Mitä opiskelet?

>>10327375
It's outdated.

>but muh /g/ meme makes it out to be phd level
kek, I bet you think it's "low level", "portable assembly", or better than C++ too.

>>10327375
>>knows jack about cs
>implying a intro to programming book is deep cs knowledge

Look who knows jack shit about cs. I guess your degree looked just like this.

>>10327474
fysiikkaa

>>10327127
>>10327286
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Mathematics

>>10327127
http://www.math.pku.edu.cn/teachers/anjp/textbook.pdf

>>10326778
>EE PhD
>Human Physiology
>Biochemistry
??

>>10328130
cuck

>>10329551
k den

>>10309510
>messy bookshelf
>papers everywhere
>printed out internet memes
>messy table
You need to tidy it up, nigger.