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Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics (Dover Books on Physics) Revised ed. Edition, Kindle Edition

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This textbook is designed to complement graduate-level physics texts in classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, and quantum mechanics. Organized around the central concept of a vector space, the book includes numerous physical applications in the body of the text as well as many problems of a physical nature. It is also one of the purposes of this book to introduce the physicist to the language and style of mathematics as well as the content of those particular subjects with contemporary relevance in physics.
Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to the mathematics of classical physics. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 — the backbone of the book — cover the theory of vector spaces. Chapter 6 covers analytic function theory. In chapters 7, 8, and 9 the authors take up several important techniques of theoretical physics — the Green's function method of solving differential and partial differential equations, and the theory of integral equations. Chapter 10 introduces the theory of groups. The authors have included a large selection of problems at the end of each chapter, some illustrating or extending mathematical points, others stressing physical application of techniques developed in the text.
Essentially self-contained, the book assumes only the standard undergraduate preparation in physics and mathematics, i.e. intermediate mechanics, electricity and magnetism, introductory quantum mechanics, advanced calculus and differential equations. The text may be easily adapted for a one-semester course at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level.

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9780486135069
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978-0486671642
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Revised ed.
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Dover Publications
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26 April 2012
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English
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Graduate-level text offers unified treatment of mathematics applicable to many branches of physics. Theory of vector spaces, analytic function theory, theory of integral equations, group theory, more. Many problems. Bibliography. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ED6LGW8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Revised ed. edition (26 April 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 41279 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 674 pages

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ROBERT W. Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored MATHEMATICS OF CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM PHYSICS. After serving as president of Oberlin College, he became a “citizen diplomat,” working toward improving international relations during the Cold War. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the nonprofit global corporation Internews and promoted democracy via free and independent media.
When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR, Fuller reflected on his career and realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank—and ultimately to write SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES: OVERCOMING THE ABUSE OF RANK. Three years later, he published a sequel that focuses on building a “dignitarian society” titled ALL RISE: SOMEBODIES, NOBODIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DIGNITY. With co-author Pamela Gerloff, he has also published DIGNITY FOR ALL: HOW TO CREATE A WORLD WITHOUT RANKISM. His most recent books are RELIGION AND SCIENCE: A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP?; GENOMES, MENOMES, WENOMES: NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN DIGNITY; THE WISDOM OF SCIENCE; BELONGING: A MEMOIR; THE THEORY OF EVERYBODY; THEO THE WHITE SQUIRREL; POINTERS TOWARD DIGNITY; and THE ROWAN TREE: A NOVEL.
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The presentation is well laid out but I don’t think this text is good for self-learning. It’s enjoyable and I love that the examples and questions are generally physics related - so you don’t find yourself asking too often, “so.. why am I learning this for”? I think this textbook would be perfect if you had the help of an instructor. I’ll throw in here that my mathematical knowledge extends to 2nd year undergraduate level. So it might actually be ok for self-studying just a little outside my knowledge atm.

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It is the best maths book I have ever read

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I don't normally write reviews but for this, I had to. It is the best maths book I have ever read.

I have just finished my first year of my physics degree at Oxford, this is the prefect level going forward.

Its explanation of grad, div and curl are the best (it even derives the expressions and informally proves associated theorems) ive seen (better than Lang anyway). Calculus of variations is also exceptional.

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