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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 23:49:00 2017 No.8724973 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>8724977 >>8724985 >>8725015 >>8725032 >>8727678

I want to be smart, /sci/. I'm interested in quantum mechanics, astronomy and computer science. Can you recommend me some books of these fields? I feel like I'm not getting any smarter by watching youtube videos about, it seems like just the "for dumbs" version.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 2017 23:51:12 No.8724977 Report

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>>8724973
First you need to learn some math. You don't learn quantum mechanics through pop sci metaphors, you learn it by making sense of the math.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 2017 23:53:00 No.8724981 Report

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>>8724977
Well, that's a beginning. I only know the high school math, is this enough?

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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 2017 23:53:08 No.8724982 Report

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All of those books are useless unless your algebra and trig skills are good. In order to understand CS books you need a solid foundation in combinatorics, go read Rosen's textbook. CS really has the lowest "knowledge" entry point, but it can get much more complicated once you pass that threshold.

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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 2017 23:54:27 No.8724985 Report

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>>8724973
>QM
First:
Hassani - Mathematical Physics: A Modern Introduction to Its Foundations

Then:
Griffiths - Introduction to Quantum mechanics
Greiner - Introduction to Quantum mechanics
Shankar - Principles of Quantum mechanics

Finally:
Lancaster and Blundel - Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur
Schwartz - Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Srednicki - Quantum Field Theory

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:01:23 No.8724994 Report

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>>8724981
For something like QM, No. You need to learn calculus up to vector Analysis.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:02:59 No.8724998 Report

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>>8724981
>>8724985
Oh if thats all you've got then swap Hassani for:
Riley et al. - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:05:07 No.8725002 Report

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>>8724981
No, you'll need to know graduate-level mathematics. Math will be a central part of your career. If the notion of just doing math half your waking hours for the rest of your life seems bad, then physics isn't for you.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:10:59 No.8725015 Report

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:18:38 No.8725032 Report

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>>8724973
If you want to become intelligent, you need to do several things first

Your life needs to be in order AKA you need to get your shit together.. Get a full body MRI to make sure you aren't going to die of cancer in the next year or whatever. Go to a neuropsychologist to make sure your brain is working at it's optimum conditions. They will probably have you go to a sports medicine center to work on physical and mental exercises, in the same vein that people who get concussions have to. They will more than likely make you start practicing aerobic exercise every day for 30 minutes so your brain is as healthy as it can be. While doing this, you need to be seeing a therapist to put to rest all of your problems that you keep going back to and dwelling on so you can move forward with a better life. Meanwhile, you should be starting to slowly learn mathematics, physics, chemistry etc... do all of this until your therapies are completed and you are in the best shape you can be.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:26:23 No.8725047 Report

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>>8724982
This.
There is also entire PDF on computer science math https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring15/mcs.pdf

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:47:51 No.8725099 Report

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>>8725032
This will help with my concentration, right? I think my biggest problem today is the fact that I easily get distracted, so I can't study too much hours a day.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 00:56:06 No.8725115 Report

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>i want to learn quantum mechanics because it sounds impressive

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 20:28:02 No.8726933 Report

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>>8724982
this this this rosen is gold.

if rosen is too hard go with epp first then go back to rosen

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2017 21:18:31 No.8727022 Report

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>>8724998
Can definitely recommend this. Most of the math ever need to understand physics.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Mar 2017 02:51:10 No.8727678 Report

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>>8724973
>I want to be smart
Well there went that dream

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Anonymous Tue 07 Mar 2017 04:06:20 No.8727786 Report

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Go on Amazon to order some college level text books. You can study and work through the problems at your own pace. We live in an amazing age where knowledge is more available than ever. There's no excuse not to learn more about whatever you're interested in. Some people spend their money and even their lives collecting stamps of all things when you could be growing your knowledge.

Or you could waste another day doing nothing.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Mar 2017 05:21:06 No.8727918 Report

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quantum mechanics was fucking plagiarized

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