Here I collect some interesting bibliography and resources that I have enjoyed reading, or that I am reading at the moment. A lot of them are missing from the list, and I will update it from time to time.
Hope this inspires you some nice readings!
Essays
Particularly inspiring essays
- Carroll, Lewis. Feeding the Mind. Chatto & Windus, 1907.
- Hamming, Richard W. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1997.
- Toraldo di Francia, Giuliano. Il rifiuto: considerazioni semiserie di un fisico sul mondo di oggi. Einaudi, 1978.
- Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Reissue of the 1961 Second Edition. MIT Press, 2019.
- Brillouin, Leon. Science and Information Theory: Second Edition. Courier Corporation, 2013.
Interesting essays on specific topics
- Peruzzi, Giulio. Vortici e colori: alle origini dell’opera di James Clerk Maxwell. EDIZIONI DEDALO, 2010.
Mathematics
Real/complex analysis, functional analysis
- Ablowitz, Mark J., and Athanassios S. Fokas. Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Yosida, Kosaku. Operational Calculus: A Theory of Hyperfunctions. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
- Zeidler, Eberhard. Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Its Applications I: Fixed-Point Theorems. Springer, 1986.
- Spivak, Michael. Calculus On Manifolds: A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus. CRC Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429501906.
Numerical analysis and operator methods
- Trefethen, Lloyd N., and Mark Embree. Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators. Princeton University Press, 2005.
Information theory
- MacKay, David J. C. Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Cover, Thomas M., and Joy A. Thomas. Elements of Information Theory. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Algebra
- Lang, Serge. Algebra. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
Asymptotic and perturbative methods
- Bender, Carl M., and Steven A. Orszag. Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers I: Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
Physics
Photonics and Electromagnetics
A book with which I am deeply in love and has followed me for many years is
- Someda, Carlo G. Electromagnetic Waves. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781420009545.
- Hanson, George W., and Alexander B. Yakovlev. Operator Theory for Electromagnetics: An Introduction. Springer, 2002.
Quantum optics and noise
- Haus, Hermann A. Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements. Springer, 2000.
- Drummond, Peter D., and Mark Hillery. The Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Optics. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Gardiner, Crispin, and Peter Zoller. Quantum Noise: A Handbook of Markovian and Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic Methods with Applications to Quantum Optics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2004.
- Mandel, Leonard, and Emil Wolf. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Meystre, Pierre, and Murray Sargent. Elements of Quantum Optics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.
- Barnett, Stephen, and Paul M. Radmore. Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics. Clarendon Press, 2002.
- Loudon, Rodney. The Quantum Theory of Light. OUP Oxford, 2000.
Quantum mechanics and scattering
- Rodberg, Leonard S., and Roger M. Thaler. Introduction to the Quantum Theory of Scattering. Academic Press, 1967.
- Joachain, Charles J. Quantum Collision Theory. North-Holland, 1975.
Quantum field theory and critical phenomena
- Cardy, John. Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Birrell, N. D., and P. C. W. Davies. Quantum Fields in Curved Space. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Condensed Matter Physics
- Zagoskin, Alexandre M. Quantum Theory of Many-Body Systems: Techniques and Applications. Springer, 1998.
- Griffin, Allan. Excitations in a Bose-Condensed Liquid. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Mahan, Gerald D. Many-Particle Physics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
- Rickayzen, Gerald. Green’s Functions and Condensed Matter. Academic Press, 1980.
- Svistunov, Boris V., Egor S. Babaev, and Nikolay V. Prokof’ev. Superfluid States of Matter. CRC Press, 2015.
- Altland, Alexander, and Ben D. Simons. Condensed Matter Field Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Nagaosa, Naoto. Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013.
- Negele, John W. Quantum Many-Particle Systems. CRC Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429497926
- Stoof, Henk T. C., Dennis B. M. Dickerscheid, and Koos Gubbels. Ultracold Quantum Fields. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.
General wave phenomena and nonlinear waves
- Brillouin, Leon. Wave Propagation and Group Velocity. Academic Press, 2013.
- Matveev, Vladimir B., and Mikhail A. Salle. Darboux Transformations and Solitons. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992.
- Whitham, G. B. Linear and Nonlinear Waves. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- Sulem, Catherine, and Pierre-Louis Sulem. The Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing and Wave Collapse. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.
Links and curiosities
- refractiveindex.info, a curated database of optical constants and refractive-index data for many materials.
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, an authoritative reference for special functions, asymptotic expansions, identities, and numerical methods.
- David Tong, Lecture notes, a collection of clear theoretical-physics notes on fields, quantum theory, statistical physics, cosmology, and related topics.
- David Tong, Theoretical physics talks.
- Microwaves101, a practical reference for microwave engineering, RF components, transmission lines, and high-frequency design.
- Accademia della Crusca, Sottomettere e consistenza: due anglicismi sotto traccia.