serena 🌙now that i'm grown and have my own money i can finally blow it on big-ticket items that i've always wanted, like textbooks that i could only afford to pirate in university
let me share some of my faves. no one cares but this is my account and i will do what i want 😤
top place for me is Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz. He distills complex and chaotic (hah!) concepts in such a clear, approachable way. A joy to read and refer to.
Proofs from THE BOOK by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler is not a textbook per se, but a collection of damn nice proofs. It references Erdös, who would talk about this fictional book that god kept with the most elegant, beautiful proofs in existence. 10/10 concept; 7/10 execution; 1/10 for cover design
am I real physics major if I don't love Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by the icon; the legend, David J. Griffiths? it's very "shut up and calculate", which frustrated me as a pretentious philosophy nerd who was all like, "but what does it mean?", but looking back this is not a bad pedagogy for beginners.
Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler is as classic as they get, and a classic for a reason. Though I did have a real love/hate relationship with this text during assignment times: it was both somehow too long and yet not detailed enough when I needed it to be.
Do I love this book because it was my companion through final year, or is it because it's got a nice cover design and looks great as a monitor stand? I'll never tell.
Rob Isaac@sereeena someone needs to be punished for this cover