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Teaching myself physics, is this a futile attempt?
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RE: Teaching myself physics, is this a futile attempt?
I have to recommend Roger Penrose's The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe as a guide for your endeavor. He spends much of his preface providing an explanation why he thought the inclusion of the underlying mathematics critical to his book. I also like the organization.

Each chapter has its own notes pages. The bibiliography is 35 pages long. Penrose also includes, where possible, article id's to be used at arXiv.org. arXiv.org: " Open access to 762,411 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics"
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RE: Teaching myself physics, is this a futile attempt? - by Cato - June 13, 2012 at 1:39 pm

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