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> could use some material on the "deeper" side of things The first few chapters are precisely about the extraction of concrete conserved quantities from symmet

> could use some material on the "deeper" side of things The first few chapters are precisely about the extraction of concrete conserved quantities from symmetries. A sufficiently "russian" reader will be able to see immediately the general case from these very complete examples. Noether's theorem is only missing in name, not in content. > The typesetting is also a crime against humanity - they should be done similarly to the Feynman lectures, so typed up in LaTeX rather than whatever they are now The typeseting of the french edition of L&L is extraordinarily beautiful. I'm not sure that is is possible to reach this typographical elegance with freely available LaTeX packages. On the other hand, the re-typed Feynman lectures are a disgrace, and an objectively worsening in quality from the first editions.

mhh__ 6y ago
I liked that section a lot but I want a jumping off point. I don't think symmetries of the action or groups are discussed, IIRC. I may have been a little vague when I said typesetting - the actual typesetting is a bit dull but the thing that is a disgrace, I should clarify, is that the fonts are terrible, and the text has that "Cheap Dover book" print quality (not far off a good typewriter).
- spekcular 6y ago
  To amplify this point, all the negative Amazon reviews praise the book but excoriate the print quality.
  - enriquto 6y ago
    This must concern some paperback English print? My copy in French from "Editions MIR Moscou, 1969", hardcover, masterfully typeset and in bible paper is one of the finest books that I have.
    - spekcular 6y ago
      Yes, I think it's specific to the English version. You can see examples if you use the Amazon.com "look inside" feature. For instance in volume 3, in the first pages already some of the footnotes are hardly readable. For one of the volumes, a reviewer even posted a picture of his edition with subscripts printed so faint/partially that they were basically missing, and he had to Google the proper formulas!
    - mhh__ 6y ago
      Yes, I literally have RF engineering books (interesting reads actually) that are as old as my grandfather that have clean equations and beautiful text, in a lovely binding, but my L&L copies are both like an n-th order photocopy.

mhh__ 6y ago

I liked that section a lot but I want a jumping off point. I don't think symmetries of the action or groups are discussed, IIRC. I may have been a little vague when I said typesetting - the actual typesetting is a bit dull but the thing that is a disgrace, I should clarify, is that the fonts are terrible, and the text has that "Cheap Dover book" print quality (not far off a good typewriter).

spekcular 6y ago
To amplify this point, all the negative Amazon reviews praise the book but excoriate the print quality.
- enriquto 6y ago
  This must concern some paperback English print? My copy in French from "Editions MIR Moscou, 1969", hardcover, masterfully typeset and in bible paper is one of the finest books that I have.
  - spekcular 6y ago
    Yes, I think it's specific to the English version. You can see examples if you use the Amazon.com "look inside" feature. For instance in volume 3, in the first pages already some of the footnotes are hardly readable. For one of the volumes, a reviewer even posted a picture of his edition with subscripts printed so faint/partially that they were basically missing, and he had to Google the proper formulas!
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    Yes, I literally have RF engineering books (interesting reads actually) that are as old as my grandfather that have clean equations and beautiful text, in a lovely binding, but my L&L copies are both like an n-th order photocopy.