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Anonymous05/25/25, 18:14No.16672714
-Calculus: Stewart, Apostol.
-Linear Algebra: Lay, Friedberg.
-Vectorial calculus: Marsden-Tromba.
-Differential equations: Zill, Tenenbaum.
-Complex variable: Ahlfors.
-Probability and Statistics: Evans.
-Topology: Munkres.
-Analysis: Sherbert, Apostol.
-Physics: Sears.
-Thermodynamics: Callen.
-Programming Language: C, by Ivor Horton and Herbert Schildt.
-Mechanics: Landau-Lifshitz.
-Abstract Algebra: Fraleigh.
-Differential geometry: Do Carmo.
-Galois theory: Rotman.
-Electromagnetism: Reitz.
-Optics: Hecht.
-Quantum Physics: Eisberg.
-Electric circuits: Nilsson.
Discuss (other better books, opinions, experiences, etc).
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Anon05/25/25, 21:57No.16672870
we already have a textbook thread
see [/sci/thread/16666400#p16666400]
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Anon05/26/25, 24:42No.16672951
>Thermodynamics: Callen
>Mechanics: Landau-Lifshitz
>Electromagnetism: Reitz
>Quantum Physics: Eisberg
this is the worst physics textbook list i've seen maybe ever
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Anon05/26/25, 24:55No.16672960
>Physics: Halliday, Resnick, & Krane
>Electromagnetism: Griffiths
>Mechanics: Taylor
>Electric Circuits: Horowitz & Hill
>Thermodynamics: There are no right answers, basically every thermo/stat text is equally shit.
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Anon05/26/25, 06:58No.16673123
3/10 list
I feel like you just tried to make it 100% Jewish
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Anon05/26/25, 20:00No.16673704
>2 calc books
this is how I know you fags don't actually read books. You aren't an LLM, you don't need to read 2000+ pages, most of them repeating the same shit, to grasp fucking calculus. Amann Escher and Zorich both cover Analysis and Calc very extensively in about 1200 pages
Also the complete lack of any more advanced math texts is just the cherry on the top: where's K-theory? commutative algebra? Algebraic topology or geometry? Actual differential geometry (no, do carmo is not a text on diff geo)? Functional analysis? PDEs? Lie theory? Rep theory? QFT? Stat phys? etc.
And why only take Landau for mechanics and not electrodynamics and QM too? It's not like the books you've listed cover much more
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Anon05/28/25, 14:57No.16677890
Any online sources?
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Anon05/29/25, 18:33No.16679029
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Anon05/30/25, 18:53No.16680491
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Anon05/31/25, 16:07No.16681651
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Anon06/01/25, 23:52No.16683814
>-Physics: Sears.
Bro why are you buying a physics textbook from a bankrupt appliance retailer?
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Anon06/02/25, 12:53No.16684293
>Vectorial calculus
At least get the name right
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Anon06/03/25, 17:47No.16685670
I corrected your selection to better books, there's plenty of room and there's plenty of more to explore but i am in a fucking train to Netherlands so i couldn't remember and come up with all the good shit:
-Calculus: Spivak, Hille/Salas, Piskunov and maybe Apostol
-> Special mentionening Munkres and Spivak for Calculus and/or Analysis on Manfolds, maybe also Hubbards "Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms"
-Linear Algebra: Hoffmann/Kunze, Halmos for Linear transformations, Mirsky
-Vectorial calculus: Murray Spiegel (Watch at his other Schaums),
-Differential equations: Tennenbaum and Pollard, Boyce DiPrima
-Complex variable: Ahlfors, Kunihiko Kodaira, maybe also Cartan, and Stein & Shakarchi
-Probability and Statistics: Dwass, for Probablity only Kolmogorov and Kiyoshi Ito, for more mathematical Eisen
-Topology: Munkres, Threllfall
-Analysis: No such a thing like "Analysis", it can be Real Analysis, Advanced Calculs.. You call it. At this point: Princeton series in Analysis by Stein and Shakarchi, special Mention Choquets "Lectures on Analysis", and the german goat Amann and Escher
-Physics: Sears & Zemansky, Halliday & Resnick if you want it to be a huge ass motherfucking single book. Anything else go for a series:
-> Feynmann lectures
-> Pauli Lectures
-> Sommerfeld
-> Landau/Lifschitz
-> Berkley physics course
-> If you know German: Demtroeder and Willhelm Macke
-Thermodynamics: Enrico Fermi (There's only a tiny dover paperback), including Statistical Mechanics maybe also Reif
-Programming Language: The C Programming language by Kernighan, Ritchie
-Mechanics: Classical Dynamics of particles and systems by Marion
-Abstract Algebra: Dummit & Foote
-Differential geometry: Kobayashi, Loring Tu, Spivak, Do Carmo
-Galois theory: Literally useless, but get Artin instead
-Electromagnetism: Either Griffiths or Jackson
-Optics: Max Born,
-Quantum Physics: Dirac, Albert Messiah, Cohen-Tannoudji, Sakurai, Bethe
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Anon06/04/25, 23:57No.16687062
>Electric circuits: Nilsson
This is a great introduction and quite essential.
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Anon06/06/25, 01:22No.16689324
>Physics: Sears.
>-Thermodynamics: Callen.
No, just, no
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Anon06/07/25, 24:34No.16690653
Signal Processing:
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Anon06/08/25, 04:35No.16691937
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Anon06/08/25, 15:41No.16692359
>Mechanics: Landau-Lifshitz
Those books are trash.
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Anon06/09/25, 20:45No.16693717
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Anon06/12/25, 10:15No.16695921
-Everything: Knuth
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Anon06/12/25, 12:02No.16695995
And for everything else, there's Master Card.
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Anon06/17/25, 24:27No.16699644
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Anon06/19/25, 24:28No.16701135
>Galois theory: Rotman
Finally a decent recommendation
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Anon06/19/25, 23:48No.16702893
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Anon06/20/25, 24:29No.16702922
Pic related the only textbooks u need for undergrad math major
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Anon06/20/25, 19:27No.16703645
wot bout this one?
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Anon06/22/25, 07:21No.16704839
Any recommendations for number theory?
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Anon06/23/25, 24:02No.16705300
I feel like every algebraic topology textbook I've ever looked at kinda sucked. Does anyone here have any recommendations?