Timeline for Best books for mathematical background?
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| Sep 21, 2013 at 10:01 | comment | added | UwF | Spivak's "Physics for Mathematicians. Mechanics I", see mathpop.com/mechanics1.htm. Even though this is not just on math background, but rather a very math minded physics text book. | |
| Jul 27, 2013 at 13:02 | comment | added | Selene Routley | Schutz'z "A First Course in GR" has a good mix of both physical AND mathematical principles in the early chapters defining concepts. There's also an unusual primer at the end on the measurement theory and technology of gravitational wave detection. | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 3:57 | comment | added | user346 | @Schutz's "Geometrical methods ..." is what I turned to when Lie derivatives were causing me great headaches. The best pedagogical explanation of diff. geom. for noobs, IMO. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 18:20 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Robert Cartaino | ||
| Nov 4, 2010 at 22:07 | history | answered | nibot | CC BY-SA 2.5 |