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Mathematical Methods for Physicists
by George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber
from Academic Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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NOT FOR LEARNING MATH OR ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER 
Just got this book for my graduate math methods class and this book sucks!!! it takes things you already know and convolutes them and makes it really obscure. a total waste of money. is griffiths the only decent physics author??
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Great Reference+ 
Arfken and Weber is a wonderful reference text covering a large number of topics that are not too easy to understand at first glance. I think of it as kind of a 'bridge' between Abromowitz and Stegun on one side and Jackson on the other. Most purely physics books do not explain how the mathematics is developed, instead assuming that the reader already has some kind of familiarity with the subject in advance. On the other hand, most purely mathematics books are far too abstract to be of immediate use to the... more info
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Waste of money
This book is the epitome of useless texts. I used this book for graduate mathematical physics as well as the "essential" version for undergraduate math methods. I have yet to learn a single thing from this book or find it remotely useful as a reference.
The explanations range from non-existent to shockingly awful to terribly incomplete.
It appears that the authors simply vomited a collection of formulas into a word processor and sold it as a textbook. Mathematical Methods of Physics (2nd Edition)... more info
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