ITT:

ITT:
Textbooks that made you feel like a brainless twat

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I've never encountered a "book" made of a sequence of articles by different authors like that, which I liked.
And especially if it's about branes, you need not feel bad for being lost as each author will assume a different background. And the supersymmetry signs will always be wrong.

Why is that? Apart from my never being happy with the treatment of more philosophical aspects of GR, like the equivalence principle, I think Wald is a good read.

On that topic: I'm interested in the expression of the derivative of a vector in curvelinear coordinates. That is...
In Euclidean space, if

[math] {\bf x} (t) = \sum_{ i=1 }^n x^i(t) {\bf e}_i (t) [/math]

you have

[math] \dfrac {\partial } {\partial t} {\bf x} (t) = \sum_{i=1}^n \left( \left ( \dfrac {\partial } {\partial t} x^i (t) \right){ \bf e}_i (t) + x^i (t) \dfrac {\partial } {\partial t} {\bf e}_i (t) \right) [/math]

And I'm looking for that general expression (and in fact the second derivative too) for a setting where the inner product is a general Riemannian metric g, with all em Christoffels and whatnot. Is it maybe even in that book?

>p-adic teichmuller uniformization of complex riemann surfces
>for dummies

AHHHHHHH

>tfw 3rd year physics undergrad at UC
>tfw Wald taught GR for the last 2 years and probably won't teach it again for the next 2 years so I'll never have a chance to take Wald's GR.
I'm still not over it.

To be fair, Kittel is probably the worst book on solid state physics ever written.

I have this as my course book for my first ever glance into solid state. Are there better books?

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