Dover Publications have been reprinting out-of-print classics for almost 70 years now. Some of my favorite (that were very hard to find before Dover) are:
- Classical Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd (google)
by: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky & Melba Phillips - Quantum Field Theory (google)
by: Claude Itzykson & Jean-Bernard Zuber - Quantum Mechanics (google)
(two volumes as one!)
by: Albert Messiah - Quantum Mechanics of One- and Two-Electron Atoms (google)
by: Hans A. Bethe & Edwin E. Salpeter
2 comments:
byron & fuller's Mathematical Physics book seems to be a popular dover pub. I see it all the time in book stores.
Off topic a bit, but what do you think of the "xxx Demystified" series? I got the "QM Demystified" text, but it (a) spent too much time doing elementary algebra in the derivations and (b) had too many mistakes.
Are any of the other books in that series any good?
good call on Byron & Fuller...Dennery & Krzywikci is a good one too, but probably should be used as a supplement to a more traditional "math methods" book like B&F.
as for the "Demystified" series, the complaints that you've mentioned are the same ones i've heard from other people. i've looked through a few of them, and i'm not impressed. its better to be right & old then wrong & new.
if you *really* want a book in that genre, i would have a look at Barron's "The Easy Way" series - although i don't think they have a QM book.
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