Books thread

[Anonymous No.12367115]

Alright people let's try to bring back a good general instead of the trash ones I see up-

Discuss your favourite books, ask for books, shit talk the garbage books that that other anon likes.

I'm personally looking for a good book specifically about analytical mechanics: I don't want it to be a whole 900 pages of newtonian mechanics with a paragraph at the end that reads "oh yeah and you can also define a Hamiltonian". Anyone got something?

Comfy link for quick check of other anon's recommendations:
https://z-lib.org/

[Anonymous No.12367255]

I've seen autists like this book so can I have input: Is it a good gift for a normal, non-autistic nine year old boy who likes mythbusters, football and chemistry?

[Anonymous No.12367260]

>>12367255
Forgot image

[Anonymous No.12367874]

>>12367115
>Author's last name is Nigro
>>12367255
Yes

[Anonymous No.12369540]

>>12367874
Why did you think I chose that pic

[Anonymous No.12369595]

>>12369540
Because the Mazzoldi Nigro Voci is an actually good book? Also Mazzoldi died recently and was a professor from my uni, so fuck off.

[Anonymous No.12369606]

>>12369595
How many fucking italians could ever be on the most depopulated board in 4chan?
Anyway first and second volumes were my physics I and II books for my triennale, and I did put it there because I like it.

[Anonymous No.12369745]

>>1236960
italian 4chan is cringe.

[Anonymous No.12369754]

>>12369606
A lot, for some reason

[Anonymous No.12370744]

I can't decide between Lang's Basic Mathematics and gelfand's algebra...

[Anonymous No.12371055]

>>12370744
Start reading them in parallel and stop wasting time "deciding"

[Anonymous No.12371480]

This:
>>12370744
Pick both: >>12371055
>>44
>>55

[Anonymous No.12372468]

>>12367115
I don't know if this is a good place to ask but I'm a physicist who is leaving academia, and over quite a lot of years now, I've taken what I thought were the best/most challenging books in areas I study and personally solved all of the problems in them and have them all in my own tex/pdf files.
There are over a thousand fully solved problems, about 700ish in E&M, more in other fields.
It was mentioned to me irl that people might be interested in me putting these online. Whether that's just a pdf dump of problems+solutions or whether that's a blog or video guide, I don't know. Does this sound like anything people here would benefit from in any way or is it kind of a waste of time for you guys?

[Anonymous No.12372544]

>>12372468
pls post it

[Anonymous No.12373204]

>>12367115
Goldstein is the best bet for mechanics. It's very comprehensive.
Landau and Lifshitz is quite contained too, although terse.
Failing that, David Tong's notes for Part II classical physics are excellent and will cover most of the same material except for the more advanced stuff like Hamilton-Jacobi theory and so on.

[Anonymous No.12373323]

>>12367260
Fuck xkcd

[Anonymous No.12373421]

>>12372468
Without a doubt something many would be interested in. If I were you I would start with the pdf dump and see where it goes from there.

[Anonymous No.12374581]

>>12373421
Alright, I'll look through them and then see about posting some here.
So far they range from undergrad to graduate level difficulty, most of them probably being graduate level
About 150 are special techniques in E&M, so quite heavy focus on conformal mapping, special functions, etc.
Also have solutions to Whittaker and Watson although I can see I never completed absolutely every problem in that book. But those are another several hundred problems and solutions in complex analysis and special functions.
Leftover problems are Wald's general relativity and some other miscellanea.

[Anonymous No.12376356]

>>12367115
Why is Griffiths so shit?

[Anonymous No.12378178]

>>12376356
Wrong

[Anonymous No.12380271]

>>12378178
He's maybe an ok introduction to electromagnetism but he doesn't really get at a deeper understanding of most of the material at all
And his quantum mechanics textbook is outright shit.

[Anonymous No.12380627]

>>12374581
It would be much appreciated if you posted them anon. If you know how to use github you could make a throw-away account and post the tex source there, so it has a more permanent home instead of it being lost in 4chan.