11 December 2005

Favorite physics books update

I asked some more friends about their favorite physics books.

Here are the updated results of the poll:
  • V. I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
  • Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physics
  • Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics
  • Grigory I. Barenblatt, Scaling
  • Herbert B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics
  • John Cardy, Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics
  • Viktor Dotsenko, An Introduction to the Theory of Spin Glasses and Neural Networks
  • Bjoern Felsager, Geometry, Particles, and Fields
  • Richard P. Feynman, Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
  • Richard P. Feynman, Statistical Mechanics (2)
  • Howard Georgi, Lie Algebras in Particle Physics (2)
  • Nigel Goldenfeld, Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group (3)
  • Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, and Edward Witten, Superstring Theory
  • David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics (5)
  • David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (3)
  • John David Jackson, Electrodynamics
  • Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer, Thermal Physics
  • Daniel Kleppner and Robert J. Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics (2)
  • E. M. Lifshitz and L. D. Landau, Mechanics
  • E. M. Lifshitz and L. D. Landau, Statistical Physics
  • E. M. Lifshitz and L. D. Landau, Theory of Elasticity
  • Richard D. Mattuck, A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem
  • Albert Messiah, Quantum Mechanics
  • V. Parameswaran Nair, Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Perspective
  • Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
  • Edward M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism
  • Gordon Raisbeck, Information Theory
  • John J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (2)
  • Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology
  • Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1: Foundations
  • Carlo Vanderzande, Lattice Models of Polymers
  • Anthony Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell (5)

I polled 8 condensed matter theorists, 2 condensed experimentalists, 6 particle theorists, and 1 astrophysicist.

And no, I'm not the one who picked Jackson.

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