re: #50 Belafon

Here is the first draft of my “Learn as much as I can about math and physics” book list (Yes, you should probably open it on a computer if you want to look at it):

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The colors indicate when it’s the same book.

The gray bars indicate sections where everything inside should be completed before moving on. For the second and third section, the rows should be competed at the same time. For most of the other sections, the columns are independent, but it’s recommended to complete them roughly simultaneously.

I am working on a column organizing the Feynman lectures to match the topics in the books so that they can be used as introductions for the topics. There are a lot of Feynman lectures.

I would love to find someone with a strong math and physics background to look at it, someone with a double major or has done some serious self-study on both. It was based on a couple of websites.

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How many years have you set aside to pursue this extremely ambitious effort? Thinking back to my undergrad days in EE, taking 2 heavy math/engineering/science class per quarter was about all I could manage, especially when labs were involved. Trying to tackle some of the advanced topics you list, when doing it as self-study, would be a killer. And that is not considering time spent away from studies to do the eating/sleeping/relationship/child rearing stuff. You should also decide how deep a dive you want to take for each topic. In-depth, down the rabbit hole or cursory survey. That will massively impact how much time will be spent. Also, you should consider that the labs associated with topics studied at school are often more important to understanding something than simply reading it out of a book. How will you compensate for skipping those? Learning is a noble goal but it needs to be grounded in what’s realistic. As the founder of Faber College said, ‘Knowledge is good”.