The three at the end are library books. My favorites are Weinberg's qm and qft books, Zee's qft, Artin's algebra, Milnor's differential topology, Geroch's mathematical physics, Atiyah and Macdonald's commutative algebra, Hermann's lie groups. Left out of the photo are some linear algebra books, Nering, Friedberg et al, Lang, and Griffiths' electrodynamics. Also Garrity's electricity and magnetism for mathematicians. Soon to arrive are Rotman's advanced modern algebra, Guillemin and Pollack's differential topology, and Lieb and Loss's analysis.
I'm not deep in algebraic geometry yet, just a basic course on classical varieties. I'll probably look at Qing Liu and Hartshorne's books eventually. The books I have seem alright right now, An Invitation to algebraic geometry and Lectures on Curves... are especially friendly. Sagan's book on the symmetric group is very interesting, it'll be good to get some exposure to combinatorics. Maybe eventually I'll study the more theoretical physics books at the top right. I'm not really sure where to go in that though, it's pretty confusing.
>>10319043It's good. Artin is worth a look at all. Not a big fan of the other standards like Herstein, Dummit and Foote, Lang, Hungerford. There are some easier books like Fraleigh but I don't have any experience with those, I studied algebra later on.
>>10311585People rarely read everything within these books. Also references are important, you will forget things eventually.
>>10311560>>10310457I bought the majority of books in this picture for under $20 used. A few at $30. None above.
>>10310511Lahiri and Pal is a friendly qft book to start. Shankar's qm is sufficient.
>>10310462Weinberg is the only book that's actually thorough in building qft. And it's hard to find better books for the later volumes. It does take a while to read though. I don't agree that Srednicki is better than Peskin, they're about equal, good at different things.
>>10317493I'm an undergrad.
