Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/industry?

Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by wikiwatchme on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:26AM (#14138596)

Modern Physics by Paul Tipler and the Feynman lectures by Richard Feynman.

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by ice109 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:55AM (#14139291)

ummm no. I can name many Bibles in physics and neither of those are in the set.

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by adyavanapalli on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:49PM (#14141693)

I agree. Feynman lectures aren't in anyway comprehensive or bible-like, but they're nonetheless very fun. As for Tipler, I'd stay far away from it haha (take it as an example of how badly a physics textbook can be written).

As for bible-like/comprehensive (I don't know if anyone has written such a thing in such a vast subject), but many consider the Landau/Lifshitz "Course in Theoretical Physics" series to be an elegant summary of important results in physics. Check out the Chicago Undergraduate Physics Bibliography if you're interested in what books to study to become a physicist.

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by leetty on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:40AM (#14145703)

There is a series by Walter Greiner... english translations are also available.

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by ice109 on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:26PM (#14170965)

the greiner books are great - especially the qft book

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by Isamu on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:45PM (#14141035)

Please name them.

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Re:Ask HN: What book is considered the bible of your field/i... by ice109 on Friday April 21, 2017 @11:25PM (#14170964)

gravitation by wheeler misner thorne, qm by sakurai, mechanics by goldstein, e&m by jackson, qft by peskin and shroeder, etc.

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