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Anonymous Fri Jul 17 05:20:32 2015 No.7401338 [Reply] [Original]

post god tier books faggots

>>	OHP Fri Jul 17 05:33:00 2015 No.7401348 File: 23 KB, 432x346, sketches.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There can be only two.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 05:35:45 2015 No.7401352 File: 184 KB, 681x812, CMcover.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7401338 A bunch of my professors seem to think this is god-tier, it's not yet accessible to me, gotta git gud with calculus of variations.

Anonymous Fri Jul 17 05:56:40 2015 No.7401369

>>7401338
In response to OP, Feynmann lectures for obvious reasons.

Going off topic here, but I'm trying to learn a lot of physics/maths over summer because I can't wait for uni.

I just finished elementary calculus, vector calculus being the latest thing I learnt, and I know all the maths a first year UK physics student should know.

Problem is, I'm not sure of where to go next. I'm thinking of Griffith's electrodynamics, though I don't know if that's the best route to take.

Or maybe I should just get a really good grounding in some maths areas that are useful to a theoretical physicist e.g. Basic topology I guess.

tl;dr Just finished elementary calc, what topics should I learn next to be a theoretical physicist?.

Anonymous Fri Jul 17 07:19:10 2015 No.7401423

>>7401369
Pick up any book on introductory physics like Young and Freedman or Halliday and Resnick, try to find the earliest possible editions of them because the questions are actually harder. Finish the book then do Mathematical Methods by Boas before proceeding to do Griffiths

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 14:40:02 2015 No.7401951 >>7401423 What about Byron and Fuller or Stone and Goldbart for maths? Also, do you know any good projective geometry books? That stuff sounds really cool.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 14:50:28 2015 No.7401969 >>7401369 You'll be bored out of your mind with topology. It's incredibly dry, and without real analysis, will seem completely arbitrary

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 15:08:24 2015 No.7402001 >>7401969 >will seem completely arbitrary This is dank in my mind.

Anonymous Fri Jul 17 15:22:01 2015 No.7402027

>>7401969
What, really? That sucks since I'm really into things like manipulation of planes and stuff.

I have a little side project going on where I'm recreating Riemann surfaces and trying to figure out some of their underlying properties... at least, until I get hopelessly stuck and have to look at the actual work done on this stuff.

Would topology not help with that? I don't want anything that's too closely related to the topic, because that feels like it would be cheating. I just want to get into the right mindset for that kind of thing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 15:22:26 2015 No.7402029 >>7401338 serway and stewart

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 15:29:58 2015 No.7402042 >>7402027 >Riemann surfaces Go learn complex analysis for that stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 17 16:51:55 2015 No.7402207 >>7402042 Thanks for the recommendation; I was thinking about doing that.

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