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For a good grounding in a lot of maths, I have somewhat fond memories of Boas: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences-2nd/dp/0471044091/re

by swombat 17y ago

For a good grounding in a lot of maths, I have somewhat fond memories of Boas: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences-2nd/dp/0471044091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264024409&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences... Arfken was also tough, but excellent: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physicists-Sixth-Comprehensive/dp/0120598760/ref=dp_cp_ob_b_title_2 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physicists-Sixth-... Yes, these books are fucking expensive. PS: I did a physics degree, so my favourite books are maths for physicists... maybe former Maths students will have "purer" books to recommend. Anyway, between these two, you'll have a good year or two of hard studying before you need to buy another one :-)

nlindig 17y ago
If you're looking for something less pricey... I highly recommend Stephen Boyd's book (free here: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/ http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/), as well as his cvx matlab toolbox. There are also some video lectures which might be less mind-numbing (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/index.html http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/index.html).
jules 17y ago
Expensive? I had to buy http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Mechanics-Thermodynamics-Book-Windows/dp/019508523X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264070985&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Mechanics-Thermodynamics-B... Half the number of pages, double the price.