No comments about Interface and Transport Dynamics: Computational Modelling (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering).

No comments about Stochasticity and Quantum Chaos (Mathematics and Its Applications).

5 comments about Methods of Theoretical Physics, Part I.

1. The classic text, still excellent, tho' somewhat dated. Well worth having because (a) the physical viewpoint is helpful for theorists and easier for experimentalists, (b) the older viewpoint is different from that of more modern texts, and still worthwhile; multiple viewpoints increase understanding.



2. Current physics students had less mathematical trainings than those did several decades ago, when computer wasn't popular. So this book is probably too hard to read through and to work on its problems. But if you force yourself, you will begin to appreciate the beauty of mathematics. The chapter about Green's function is escpecially good, never had a so vivid lecture on Green's function before. Actually, when I read this book, I felt Green's function is the kernel and the main bone of this book. It appears almost in every chapter.

   The price is pretty high, but if you choose physics as your career, it's worth to have this book, both for academic and entertaining purposes.




3. In response to questions from colleagues and students i'm posting this review.
   This was the standard text many years ago.
   Many current topics on mathematical Quantization and Stochastic Optimization are conspicuously abscent.
   The publisher is working on a two Volume Paperback edition that will be available shortly, so save your money and buy this 2-vol set for one fifth the price.



4. Feshbach Publishing has acquired the rights to this work from McGraw-Hill. Cambridge University Press did a terrific job reprinting the book using printing film supplied by McGraw-Hill.
   
   Despite George Arfken's claim in 2002 that a paperback version was on it's way, no such version was ever planned. This book is used intensively over several decades by many people. I doubt that a paperback version would survive for long under such circumstances.



5. ..please help the poor like me by launch the paper back edition so i can afford it..please be compassioned

No comments about Poincaré Seminar 2003: Bose--Einstein Condensation - Entropy (Poincaré Seminare).

No comments about Supersymmetry and its Applications: Superstrings, Anomalies and Supergravity.

No comments about An Introduction to Riemann Surfaces, Algebraic Curves and Moduli Spaces (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics).

No comments about A Practical Guide to Ecological Modelling: Using R as a Simulation Platform.

No comments about Fractional Analysis: Methods of Motion Decomposition.

No comments about Differential Equations: Their Solution Using Symmetries.

4 comments about The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics (Bradford Books).

1. This is a concise and elegant summary of the fundamentals of the six core theories of physics. It even includes a convenient math review. Although the author might have the "beginning graduate student" in mind, now at the end of my Ph.D. training in applied physics at Harvard, I still had a great time reading it!.



2. While it's pleasant having an overview of physics in one place I am unhappy with the lack of care in writing the text. For example, the section on functional calculus frequently changes notation during an explanation. Also, much more emphasis should have been placed on the fact that the differentiation of functionals produces functional DENSITY derivatives. However, with some effort, I DID succeed in understanding this section. Needs greater clarity of presentation, perhaps with more diagrams.



3. I am self-studying QFT and have bought several of the standard textbooks -- they are all tough going.

   Stevens's book helped me greatly in understanding the path-integral approach: the section on functional calculus was very well presented, then applied in the two chapters on quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT). I especially liked the connection made with classical probability theory, something I haven't seen in my QFT books.

   You will not learn QM from this book. In fact, with a QM-101 background, you may find the QM chapter hard to follow. However, if you have started to learn QFT, it should add value.

   The other chapters were of less interest to me personally, but I thought they nicely reviewed their topics from a fresh viewpoint, in particular special relativity and thermodynamics.




4. I bought this for half price from a used bookstore (they had several copies) so I should've been warned. Within a few pages of starting this book, in a section of vector algebra, the author states that all vectors in an orthonormal basis are eigenvectors of all unitary operators. That's a ludicrous statement that is trivially wrong. Being a bit afraid that I might be led astray when reading sections on material I didn't already know, I checked the web for other mentions of this book. The only website I found (besides the publishers) was one hosting a lengthy errata for the book, full of corrections to sloppy mistakes in this book. Warning number two. Here it is (you'll need it):
   
   w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/talks/ 2001/core-theories-errata.pdf
   
   I think the idea behind this book is great, and I haven't found anything yet as aggregious as the mistatement about unitary transforms. But beware. This isn't a book by a physicist, and it shows.