Books That I Do Not Like

I talk about some well known physics books but I personally do not like them. I also talk about a few other books just to be positive, that I do like.

[ARBB]

Good video and presentation.

I disagree with your review of Gravitation, but nevertheless you make good points ; the nigh-amateur way of organizing the book into three distinct Tracks is cumbersome at best, and directly detrimental to learning the topic at worst. But the contents are fantastic; the section on differential forms is far more elegant and interesting even than most electrodynamics content, and the sections on geometrical interpretations of the variational principle and field equations are simply genius.

The last sections on spinor algebra and black holes, although outdated and at times unclear, are still worth reading.

Of course, there are a lot of chapters that could've been removed altogether. The sheer space wasted on Regge calculus and gravitational waves could've been much better used with better treatments of say, basic tensor calculus, which is a flaw you well pointed out.

[jarnoldp]

I have almost all your good books. You make me feel so much better. I was told I’m a weak physicist for not being able to understand the bad books you point out.

I know Gates as well. He’s an acquaintance of mine. I feel the same way about all these books.

If I ever get the chance, I want to buy you a beer.

[rationalsceptic]

Wheeler born in 1911, died aged 96 in 2008;
He was 7 years older than Feynman(born 1918)

[esreve]

Thank you for your advice. I just ordered Fermi's QM fascimile edition.

[BarriosGroupie]

I found the book Gravitation awesome; a masterpiece of a book where the physics takes center stage to motivate the development of the maths. But realistically I think it's a book that most professional physicists won't read cover to cover, and to master all of the content honestly will take decades. For me, its right up there with classic texts like Jackson's electrodynamics. On the other hand, I agree that there are better texts to quickly get people up to speed in the third decade of the 21st century.

[merlijn]

The man on the left on the cover of Whittaker's book is Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.

[TheBackyardProfessor]

I am really enjoying your videos! THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge with us nonmathematicians and nonphysicists. I am interested in learning as much as I can and find the way yo teach the math in the Fine Structure Constant videos VERY helpful! I intend on watching everything you have made, please do continue your videos.

[spookidrew]

Density of states sounds like what John Carroll points to in the royal Institute's lecture "a brief history of quantum mechanics" (the last 1/3 of the lecture haha)

[belvedere]

I'm surprised you missed the notorious Statistical Mechanics by Huang

[scr]

profesor cuando hacemos un blog con estos y todos los libros que usted tiene saludos desde colombia

[emale]

I like your style of informal discussion.

[User-jrvf]

it looks like you no longer post videos to your ch annel. so sad, it is nice watching your videos either rating books or teaching physics.

[Upgradezz]

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[ArnoldSommerfeld]

Funny. I opened up my copy of The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time and immediately got an experimental result. Page 126 discusses the steady state theory and its predictions.

[CV-wgdp]

Greetings Professor, any suggestions for thermodynamics and statistical mechanics? (Fermi, Feynman, Schrödinger, Planck, etc) or more modern publications. Thanks.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Why does he keep calling G.F.R. Ellis "John"???