I find it strange that no one in this discussion seems to notice the dripping sarcasm...
What do you mean? :(
How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
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Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#32Is there a site like this for mathimatics?
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#33Is there a site anything like this for mathimatics?
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#34Is there a site like this for mathimatics?
How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician): a List of Undergraduate and Basic Graduate Textbooks and Lecture Notes - the blog
For a lot of other stuff check out Saylor.org's old 'major's page:
https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20904185...
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#35As a Philomath, this site is an oasis on the Internet. True, you may be able to grasp what this page tries to accomplish with enough determination. But, someone sharing their knowledge and path in a no-nonsense approach, sure helps a lot. Are there any other similar guides for other fields?
I'm personally interested in a guide like this for economics... if anyone knows of one. It can be a book I guess...
Consider looking at this-
https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20904185...
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#36Has anyone here ever read or worked through Hrabovsky and Susskind's _The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics_? Same premise as this, I gather, but a whole book.
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#37I'm happy to see that there is someone who is trying to help those who don't want to or can't go the traditional route of undergrad => grad school. Certainly I'm sure there are many others like me who have a strong, but amateur interest in a subject. Here I mean amateur in the sense that it is unpaid and done only out of love, as opposed to some measure of skill. Sadly I have no intention of studying theoretical phys…
> If anyone could point me towards something for theoretical computer science and algorithms
Cheap trick: google up university course pages like [1], look at the syllabus and get the books listed. MIT's OpenCourseware has lots of stuff [2].
[1] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs3261/
[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#38I prefer the way Facebook parses the title, as originally written: GOOD Theoretical Physicist.
Reminds me of GOOD Music [0]
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#39Has anyone here ever read or worked through Hrabovsky and Susskind's _The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics_? Same premise as this, I gather, but a whole book.
I started it, not finished yet. My overall impression is favorable based on the part I've worked through so far.
Re: How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist
#40The most profound thing that the internet can do for the world is create a single monolithic repository of documents that is designed to take a dedicated reader from basic principles of math to a high degree of understanding in any subject. This is such an easy task compared to all of the other projects that happen on the internet, it is astonishing that we don't have anything like it yet. Wikipedia comes close. Khan…
There was an attempt to start that in Wikiversity, but it's been very very slow.