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These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.
by def-pri-pub 6mo ago
These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.
- neutronicus 6mo agoIt is not a textbook, it is an extremely dense reference manual, so that honestly makes sense. In physics grad school, professors would occasionally allude to it, and textbooks would cite it ... pretty often. So it's a thing anyone with postgraduate physics education should know exists, but you wouldn't ever be assigned it.
- rendaw 6mo agoPresumably someone read it though, at some point, in order to be able to cite it.
- neutronicus 6mo agoThe relevant sections, at any rate
- eesmith 6mo agoI didn't need Abramowitz and Stegun until grad school. In the 1990s. It was a well-known reference book for people at that level, not a text book. For my undergrad the CRC math handbook was enough.