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7772980 No.7772980 [Reply] [Original]

ITT:

Post what you think is the definitive text on a field of your choice (textbook, paper, whatever)

Rules: if you disagree with someone's pick for their field, offer an alternative.

Starting with Introductory E&M

>> No.7772989
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7772989

Both volumes.

>> No.7772991
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7772991

The Bible of cell biology.

>> No.7772995
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For a first pass at cosmology

>> No.7773011
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pretty much the definitive introduction to microelectronics

>> No.7773031

sedra smith is literally my hero

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>>7772980


overcited but great exposition for applications, all you need is like, calculus 1, linear algebra and stats and it gives you all the intuition you will ever need

its a totally new perspective, you will seee the world differently after reading this

although if you want to study information theory for the sake of it you will need to do a lot more work

>> No.7773037

>>7772989

> string theory
> 2016

pls go

>> No.7773049

>>7772980
Wrong,
Purcell is better than Griffin imo

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>>7773049
>>7772980

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

grow up children

>> No.7773082

>>7773068
Meh jackson is too convoluted and has too many mistakes, try Melia, Electrodynamics or Panofsky

>> No.7773086

>>7773049
>>7773068
These books are on different levels though

Purcell < Griffiths < Jackson

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Pretty obvious for real analysis

>> No.7773164

>>7772995
Looks like a uterus.

>> No.7773192

>>7773011

My electronics I is using this book

Can't wait for that class

>> No.7773195

>>7772995
Top notch

>> No.7773250

>>7773095
go home ass hat

rudin sacrifices lucidity for trite concise proofs

the exercises are hard and offer in return nothing other than a waste of time and a sore brain, there are less painful ways to acquire practice

its a book people claim to have read for 'bragging rights'

discard everyone who claims to have worked through rudin

dont bother, read something with decent exposition like bartle, then go to folland for a treatment of the non-training-wheels theory of integration

literally anyone but rudin

>> No.7773258

>>7773068
This. kek.

But seriously just get Jackson. It's pointless to waste time on Griff's book. Don't bother with his QM either.

>> No.7773264

>>7773258
Easy books like Griffiths make people feel good because it makes the reader believe they understand the subject. Only once they try to read higher level books they will realize that they haven't actually understood shit and fail badly.

>> No.7773321

>>7772980
>introduction to electrodynamics
>has time-independent wave equations on cover

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>>7772989
>string theory
cool... a philosophy major!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2015/12/23/why-string-theory-is-not-science/

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Introductory classical mechanics

>> No.7773534

>>7772991
Are you the same guy that keeps posting this for the past few days?

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Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory I–IV

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Hoping this for FEM, just picked it up

>>7773538
Kek

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>he fell for the computer science meme
no this is actually a good book

i think textbook threads are the best threads on /sci/ even with all of the memes and shitposting

>> No.7773603

>>7773250
>the exercises are hard

I don't think you belong in mathematics my friend.

Rudin is an astounding book in beauty and conciseness, every reputable mathematician I've ever met has said that. If you don't understand it, I invite you to study harder instead of hating on people who do.

>> No.7773611

>>7773577
>fucking spyro the dragon on the cover

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>>7773577
Engineering > *

>> No.7773636

>>7773577
>Writing a book about compilers that targets kids

topkek, I can appreciate the believes of the author but it is clear now that any kid who touches programming will just be doing shitty 2D videogames.

[scispoiler]talking from experience[/scispoiler]

>> No.7773917

>tfw definitive texts in my field aren't available in English