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pkoird ◴[] No.45146435[source]
Nice effort. As far as textbooks for QM, Electrodynamics, and any sufficiently complex field of study goes, I always feel that these have been written using abstractions that people have developed much later retroactively. I understand the advantages: it makes the entire content concise, structured, and basically straightforward. However, what I crave is a technical book that is based upon the history of the subject. Something that doesn't start immediately with Hilbert spaces but starts off by talking about why Max Plank did what he did, how did Einstein improve upon it, what mistakes were made, what misguided hypothesis were later corrected in what manner, how were different things then unified... you get the point. I think this narrative based approach would motivate me much better than something that's condensed and distilled.
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1. LordGrignard ◴[] No.45146488[source]
I think the book called "Quantum mechanics" by max Planck and Neil bohr is quite similar to what you need. And atleast in my country it's available for less than 2.5$ usd converted so it's pretty damn cheap However of course I think you'd be able to find an ebook about it too Just include max Planck and neil bohr as the authors lol.