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Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis

11 reviews
Theodora W. Greene, Peter G. M. Wuts

Wiley-Interscience, 1999

A must have for any synthetic laboratory
There are other protecting group books out there but I found this one to be the most comprehensive and easy to use.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry

15 reviews
Linus Pauling, E. Bright Wilson

Dover Publications, 1985

Outstanding and a classic, however not for beginners, don't let "introduction" fool you! :)
As an alum holding both undergrad and graduate degrees in a related field, I figured I would pick this title up for some pretty heavy reading. I was right. Even thought the title says "an introduction", there are several pre-requisites to understanding Quantum Mechanics, and the style of Linus Pauling's writing in general. The book reads very much like a textbook, and I would suggest at least ...

Quaternions and Rotation Sequences: A Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace and Virtual Reality

30 reviews
J. B. Kuipers

Princeton University Press, 2002

All four elements...
Quaternions are not as intuitive as 3x3 matrices however this book give a strong understanding of quaternions so that the reader can let go of the 3x3 matrix and successfully, in my case at least, change over to only using quaternions. This has proven useful in my simulations for, and firmware code for, satellite attitude determination and control. In the version I have of this book, there are ...

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

11 reviews
David Toomey

W. W. Norton, 2007

A fact-filled scientific adventure
A gripping read about what is often a daunting topic, Time Travelers takes us on an intellectual and imaginative journey through science, science fiction, and the lives of scientists. Books on these topics can often be obscure or overly fanciful. This one is delightfully alive, and Toomey is never less than careful in both the physics and speculations about time travel. A lesser writer would ...

Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

12 reviews
V. I. Arnold

Springer, 1997

Encyclopedic
Extremely stimulating, uses Galileo to motivate Newton's laws instead of postulating them. Treatment of Bertrand's theorem is beautiful, but contains one error (took me 2 years before I realized where..). However, I know of only one physicist who successully worked out all the missing steps and taught from this book. I know mathematicians who have cursed it. I used/use it for inspiration. The ...

Quantum Field Theory

10 reviews
Mark Srednicki

Cambridge University Press, 2007

If only this book were available when I was in CalTech Phd program
I was at Caltech 1984-86 in Phd. theoretical physics program and they were still using Bjorken & Drell and then Ramond for the final quarter - I fell behind when we hit chapter 8 renormalization never caught up and to my regret dropped out and became a professional high limit poker player. Every few years I would buy another QFT text - I tried them all (Peskin & Schroeder, Ryder, kaku, Weinberg, ...

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

82 reviews
Kip S. Thorne

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

The science behind the movie "Contact"
When Carl Sagan wanted to have his fictional herione from Contact travel in time, he turned to Kip Thorne. This book is Thorne's attempt to more fully explain the science of time travel. And in the process Thorne takes you to the prediction and discovery of black holes. First seriously suggested by the theories of Albert Einstein, a black hole is a star that has grown so massive (at ...

Methods in Modern Biophysics

11 reviews
Bengt Nölting

Springer, 2003

A fantastic textbook for Biophysics
This is a fantastic textbook on biophysics methods and techniques. I found it particularly useful for those who are theoreticians and computer modelers. As a theoretical biophysicist, I work on protein folding, protein structure prediction and ligand-receptor binding studies, and I was constantly looking for a book which contains all important and up-to-date experimental methods and techniques to ...

Time: A Traveler's Guide

17 reviews
Clifford A. Pickover

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Quantum Physics Can Be Fun
An outstanding book - I have never before read a book that dealt with such advanced concepts that was so easy to read and comprehend and as hard to put down (I read it in a weekend). Dr. Pickover's style of making the first half of each chapter a sci-fi story, with the second half "the science behind the story" makes this book fun and teaches you without having to work. Definately inspires ...

Molecular Modeling and Simulation

10 reviews
Tamar Schlick

Springer, 2002

A long expected book in molecular modeling is finally here
I highly recommend Professor T. Schlick's book. It is beautifully written with many examples and great illustrations. The book is truly interdisciplinary; it covers, in good depth, both the biological and mathematical aspects of computational structural biology. Most chapters start with an amenable introduction and finish with "hands-on" recommendations and future challenges. I was particularly ...

Statistical Physics, Part 2: Volume 9 (Pt 2) (Pt 2)

6 reviews
E M Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1980

Unrivalled Masterpiece
This book is a classic, especially in the sense it is somewhat old fashioned in its basic approaches when compared with newer books. For example it examines statistics and entropy from the ergodic as opposed to the ensemble approach. Information Theory and role of symmetry and symmetry breaking is not treated in detail. However I can't hold these omissions against the book since these ...

The Chemistry Maths Book

7 reviews
Erich Steiner

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

a good book to have when you're taking pchem
I initially got this book because my math skills were shaky and being a chem major, I knew that shaky math skills would not suffice. I took a calculus course and glanced through the book, but didn't really use it so much. Then I took pchem. This book was a life saver, seriously. All the math and the equations that seem to come from nowhere in pchem books are deeply explored, derived and ...

Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense

9 reviews
Arieh Ben-Naim

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2008

Entropy - no big deal
"... Arieh Ben-Naim invites the reader to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years -entropy and the second law of thermodynamics". This statement on the back cover for sure will reflect the experience of many who read this book. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand or teach the mysterious concept "entropy". Just sit back, open ...

Principles of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (Undergraduate Chemistry Series)

6 reviews

CRC, 1997

A great book!
This is an excellent, first-level introduction to colloids and is better than any others available in the market. The vignettes in the book alone are worth the price! Suitable for self-study!

Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine

8 reviews
Jenny Randles, 2008

A Glimpse of the Future, or the past, or all of the Above?
I adore books like this, stretching one's concepts beyond their comfort zone to consider new possibilities. At the same time, however, I feel compelled to approach such works as "Breaking the Time Barrier" with a healthy measure of skepticism. Of course, most people believe that crossing boundaries of time is impossible, although from a theoretical perspective it appears possible at the same time ...

Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Second Edition: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems ...

6 reviews
Jacob N. Israelachvili

Academic Press, 1992

Fantastic Book
If you want to learn about the title subject, this is a great intro book. And it's probably the most enjoyable theory book you are likely to own, if you purchase it.

Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity (Series on Knots and Everything, Vol 4)

6 reviews
John C. Baez, Javier P. Muniain

World Scientific Publishing Company, 1994

Perfect
A beautifully written book which should be entitled "quantum gravity primer for the practical man". Clear and self-contained, this book will serve aa a small survey of mathematical physics, giving the reader tools in particle physics and gravity. Excellently motivated topics. Compact enough to bring with you anywhere. The only thing it fails at is dicing a proper tomato.

An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics

6 reviews
W. Noel Cottingham, Derek A. Greenwood

Cambridge University Press, 1999

workout with the Standard Model lagrangian
This book is about the experimental facts and the theoretical principles that lead to the construction of the Standard Model lagrangian. It is NOT about calculating scattering crossections. Some of the problems ask you to calculate decay rates but only at tree level and the fields are treated like classical fields not operators, with the exception that the fermionic fields anticommute. There is ...

Fluid Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics)

7 reviews
L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz

Pergamon Pr, 1987

An Important Book in Physics
Landau & Lifshz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is a famous and respected set of books in Physics. Unfortunately, Butterworth-Heinemann, who currently prints those books in English, prints them with very poor quality. The books seem to be "printed" in old copy machines and the paper used is also a cheap one. In many pages, it is really hard to read the text, due to such poor printing.

Handbook of ornament ;: A grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches for ...

6 reviews
Franz Sales Meyer

E. Weyhe, 1894

Indispensable Ornamental Design Resource
Not only does this book contain a huge assortment of extremely clean and scannable examples of ornamental designs from different periods and cultures, but also provides diagrams and information you can use to create your own original designs in a given style. This may be the last book I buy (except newer copies of THIS book!) on ornamental design.

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