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> Landau's books Landau's presentation is extremely condensed. Griffiths is much more friendly towards the reader. I would compare Landau to Knuth's The Art o
by sampo 12y ago
> Landau's books
Landau's presentation is extremely condensed. Griffiths is much more friendly towards the reader.
I would compare Landau to Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Some people do read them, but the rest of us just hold them in extremely high regard :-).
- jeffwass 12y agoThe Landau Lifshitz series is absolutely amazing. It works so well with my brain, entirely concise with just enough textual clarification as needed. Eg, volume 1 is classical mechanics. By page 3 or so you e already derived the Lagrangian equations of motion.