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> I've skimmed through the Landau books and while they are technically excellent, they lack a sense of feeling and motivation which makes it hard to self study
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> I've skimmed through the Landau books and while they are technically excellent, they lack a sense of feeling and motivation which makes it hard to self study from.
A person that I know who has a doctoral degree in pysics and loves the Landau-Lifshitz books said: "If you need such an external motivation (for reading the Landau-Lifshitz books), you simply do not have sufficient inner drive for studying physics. Find another major that better is a better fit for you."
- guptadagger 3y agoI think this 100% true, you don't read those books for any pleasure, its simply a necessary part of an education in theoretical physics. rigorous and challenging
- mathisfun123 3y agodon't you just love it when people with "doctoral" degrees meme? this is a really bad paraphrasal of the apocryphal story about hilbert: "There is a much quoted story about David Hilbert, who one day noticed that a certain student had stopped attending class. When told that the student had decided to drop mathematics to become a poet, Hilbert replied, “Good — he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.” — Robert Osserman (US mathematician, 1926 – 2011)"
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> don't you just love it when people with "doctoral" degrees meme? This was not intended as some kind of meme by him. He really is like that. The mention of his doctoral degree in physics has just the relevance that he is not to be considered a crackpot.