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They really are rubbish pedagogically. I remember me trying to grasp physics from Mir (the Soviet publisher) but the book was basically a compendium of hard as
by villasv 6y ago
They really are rubbish pedagogically. I remember me trying to grasp physics from Mir (the Soviet publisher) but the book was basically a compendium of hard as hell exercises with barely any explanation.
Had a much better time with Tipler’s modern physics book later on.
- andi999 6y agoWell is it about time, or culture? I mean Bergmann Schaefer was always good, wasnt it. Anyhow I am curious what book exactly from Mir did you read? Also one of my co-students was from Russia (he was from a gifted program) and what a bit shocked me that for them to learn mechanics the study Landau-Lifshitz vol 1 at age 14.
- villasv 6y agoBoth, I guess, because they're correlated. Certainly culture plays a big part. The USSR days were intense for science and nationalism. I guess those books were just another reflex of the space race mentality that stuck for a while. I don't remember which Mir books I've read exactly, but I'm almost sure two of them were Irodov's Fundamental Laws of Mechanics and Saveliev's General Course. Maybe I was just too immature, but that thing was way too heavy for a standard high-schooler.
- andi999 6y agoI just had a look. Savelievs looks more like a course for university.