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Perhaps start with https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21660 "It is certainly true that there are aspects of relativity that are counterintuitive, not only to retired engineers but also to …

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/grind

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsnr.202...

Both these books are on my book shelf and are very good. Bate et. al. especially since it is a Dover book and very affordable. The book that is always on my DESK is "Fundamentals o…

Take a look at https://store.steampowered.com/app/882140/Reentry__An_Orbita...

The article mentions "few known exact solutions". There are actually quite a number. Most are from after 1950. Cambridge University Press has two good books: Exact Spacetimes in Ei…

L4 and L5 are stable when the smaller mass is less than about 0.0385 times the larger mass [1]. This means e.g. a typical binary star system would not have stable L4/L5 points. The…

+1 for Artin's Algebra. I think is very under appreciated.

I've been on a Math journey since I retired a couple of years ago and I agree with all the books mentioned that I know and look forward to picking up some of the one I do not know.…

There is Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Doran and Lasenby (2003). It recasts mechanics, E&M up to gauge theories and GR into geometric algebra. I stalled out at mechanics but …

I had a quick look and this seems like a solid, concise intro to GR. The article https://people.carleton.edu/~nchriste/PTO000041.pdf gives an overview of the ways and books to lear…

Snap. I am also a physicist trying to learn math. In my case it's: - Introduction to Analysis (Mattuck) - Elementary Differential Geometry (Pressley) both chosen because they have …

Steinhardt's book "The second kind of impossible" describes his involvement with quasi-crystals. It's very worthwhile.

Really looking forward to the "So you want to learn math" list!

Penrose's contribution is reviewed in https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5226

"The discovery still leaves much of the universe undetected. About 85 per cent of its matter is thought to be "dark matter" — that which is undetectable using ordinary methods." If…

The BBC podcast "13 minutes to the moon" is very worth-while.

I am enjoying "The Moon, A history for the future" by Oliver Morton.

My perception (as a lapsed PhD physicist) is the community takes on a new formalism when it has to i.e. there are new results that can only be derived with the new formalism. A for…

I took that idea to its extreme and released "Geodesic Asteroids" on iOS (free) a couple of years ago. You can play on the 2D map or an embedded torus. There is also an old blog po…

Depends on what the math re-learning covers. You'd need differential equations and 2nd year calculus. A good choice for less math might be "Gravity from the ground up" by Schutz.

Physics from symmetry looks really fun. Another book for the pile! (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku )