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Rocommended books are
- Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Arfken (et al)
- Introduction to Mathematical Physics by Michael T. Vaughn,
ISBN 978-3-527-40627-2 Wiley-VCH.
You should have a copy of at least one book on Mathematical Physics.
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Other books for reference:
(You do not need these, but if you want an alternate source, here are
some I know of)
- Textbooks, At roughly this level
- Arfken and Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists
6th Ed. ISBN-13:978-0-12-059876-2, ISBN-10:0-12-059876-0 Elsevier
- Michael T. Vaughn, Introduction to Mathematical Physics
ISBN 978-3-527-40627-2 Wiley-VCHm
- Mary L. Boas Mathematical Methods in the Physics Sciences
ISBN-13 978-0-471-19826-0, ISBN-WIE-13 978-0-471-36580-8 John Wiley
(slightly lower lever)
- Phillippe Dennery and André Krzywicki, Mathematics for
Physicists ISBN-13:978-0-486-69193-0, Dover (1996, Harper 1967)
- Royal Eugene Collins, Mathematical Methods for Physicists and
Engineers ISBN 0-486-40229-0 Dover (1999)
- More elementary
- Schey, div grad curl and all that (more elementary)
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- Mathematical reference books
- Arfken, Mathematical Methods for Physicists 2nd Ed.
1970. This is earlier version of Arfken and Weber, with some
stuff subsequently left out.
- Whittaker & Watson, A Course in Modern Analysis
- Arthur Erdélyi et al, Higher Transcendental Functions
Vols 1-3, Bateman Manuscript Project. McGraw-Hill (1953)
- Arthur Erdélyi Ed., Tables of Integral Transforms
Bateman Manuscript Project. McGraw-Hill (1954)
- Courant and Hilbert, Methods of Mathematical Physics 1953,
Interscience Publishers
- Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions
This book, excellent set of equations with the now superfluous numerical
tables left out, is available free on line.
- Elementary Books on Special Relativity
- James H. Smith Introduction to Special Relativity (Benjamin)
- Ohanian Special Relativity: A Modern Introduction
- French Special Relativity MIT Intro Physics Series
- Statistical and Thermal Physics
- Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics
There will be more to come, I think.
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Joel Shapiro
(shapiro@physics.rutgers.edu)
Last modified: Wed Sep 7 09:37:32 2016
