Let's have a reading group. Dubs decides the textbook>Rotman - An Introduction to Algebraic Topology(yes I'm sure this is going to fail, but what if it doesn't)
I don't have that one, but I have this Rotman.
Stacks.
>>16995777nice trips but only dubs participate
>>16995760The bible
>>16995760Reverend Insanity.
3264 and All That
>>16996133Noice looks good, and a .pdf is the first Google result so even people who don't know the shadow libraries can join inAlright /sci/ let's dig in
>>16995945This useful if you are trying to.pass a first year physics class? I know thermodynamics is a weed out course historically. Would this help or it for higher level learning?
>>16996232It's for a much higher level. You wouldn't even see the contents covered in a graduate stat mech course.
>>16996245Advice on basics thermodynamics then. I have seen physics books that werent calculus heavy but wonder if they are worth reading for physics.
>>16996248Avoid purely phenomelogical approach. That'a for engoyneers or health people. At general physics level, best is Moore or Mazur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Ideas_that_Shaped_Physicshttps://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/principles--practice-of-physics/P200000006983/9780136874096
>>16996248All intro thermo books are kind of shit since they're required to paper over a lot of complexity, even in the definition of basic thermodynamic quantities (most of which need to be modified or don't even work at all in relativistic, quantum, or even nonequilibrium cases). I used Borgnakke when I took thermo, and it's okay I guess. Fermi's book is at least short and doesn't waste your time.Just don't expect t oreally understand most concepts without significantly more physics.
>>16996270>>16996248if you want a more solid intro to thermo, you cant beat the first chapters of Huang's Statistical Mechanics
>>16996133LET'S GOOOO
DiscussAnd other anons please keep gradually screenshooting pages, I'd love for this thread to actually be something but I'm dying from AIDS tomorrow. Full text PDF is super easy to google.
