Shlomo Sternberg
@Pennywi25761697 For Classical Mechanics, from a math perspective I liked Arnold鈥檚 book.
Physicists all seem to use Jackson for E&M. But I would learn the bundle theoretic version where Maxwell becomes a single equation. GR I found Shlomo Sternberg鈥檚 papers and Books very helpful. Or Wald.
@Pennywi25761697 Also, I have been wanting to check out @seanmcarroll鈥檚 books and lectures on introductory topics. He is usually very clear and extremely good at explaining things. I might even start there, but I personally haven鈥檛 gotten there as of yet so I can鈥檛 say for sure.
Wow. One of my favorite people. Gone.
So many Shlomo stories. What a staggering giant to lose at the end of a long and wonderful life. Just learned of his death on Friday.
A great mathematical physicist. An even rarer human being.
One of my masters has left this world. Shlomo Sternberg was a professor of mathematics at Harvard. Retired, he lived in old Jerusalem. Descended from a generation of rabbis, he had completed his PhD at 19 years old at the same time as his title of rabbi. An exceptional scientist.
@martinmbauer I learned so much from him and he changed the course of my life a few times.
He used to sleep in his office and we would talk well past midnight. The most romantic way one could learn.
A true scholar in the old European/Jewish sense who happened to do mathematics and physics.
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