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Summary: A work of art and a marvellous textbook
Review: If you study on your own (and you should!), there is no better companion. Landau's (and Lifshitz') knack for developing simultaneously the mathematics and the physics of quantum mechanics reaches here unprecedent levels. Both the theory and the applications are masterfully developed. The chapters on angular momentum, with the definitive introduction to, and application of, spinors, the study of symmetry, including a very lucid introduction to group theory, the treatment of the Thomas-Fermi atomic model, of the Periodic Table, the incredible appendix on the so-called special functions... On retrospect I realize I have been reading this book since it first appeared in English, always learning, always delighted with it.
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Summary: A well organized classical course
Review: Landau was a great teacher. The whole series is perfectly organized and the material is divided into pieces of reasonable size which can be swallowed one after another. The reader can appreciate the beauty of every single piece of knowledge. I recommend this series especially to those readers who already have some general knowledge of maths and physics and who are able to study for themselves; it is also a very useful reference for professionals. The volume on quantum mechanics has taught me a lot about the structure of nuclei, atoms and molecules (in fact also about the chemistry) - and also about the symmetries and the special functions encountered in the field of quantum mechanics. Feynman's lectures on physics are also great (albeit alternative) but the course of Landau and Lifshitz is a standard for anyone looking for the best presentation of physics by 1960s.
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Summary: The best
Review: Superb exposition. Detailed, all-encompassing & (surprise !)- deep. Pedagogically seductive, intellectually satisfying, philosophically thought provoking. A step-by-step sprawl, contains vast material not usually found in other textbooks (or, if found, clumsily presented). Being a blend of intuition and rigor, this is the book to learn Quantum Mechanics from & to revisit it when in quantum dire strait.
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Summary: The best
Review: Superb exposition. Detailed, all-encompassing & (surprise !)- deep. Pedagogically seductive, intellectually satisfying, philosophically thought provoking. A step-by-step sprawl, contains vast material not usually found in other textbooks (or, if found, clumsily presented). Being a blend of intuition and rigor, this is the book to learn Quantum Mechanics from & to revisit it when in quantum dire strait.
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Summary: Better books are available
Review: This book may be a classic, but it's definately the last book I pull off the shelf when I have a problem.If you like it easy, try McQuarrie or Pauling. If you like it hard, try Sakurai or Shankar. Cohen-Tannoudji and Messiah are very good books that cover it all. By the way, I'm a chemist.
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Summary: Excellent for the Advanced Student
Review: This is the Volume 3 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 3 treats the subject of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It contains a large amount of subjects, is very detailed, rigorous, and contain topics not usually found in other textbooks, such as for example the theory of symmetry, the quantum mechanics of polyatomic molecules and topics relating to the nuclear structure. It still contains a mathematical appendice on special functions used in quantum mechanics, which makes the book practically self contained. No better textbook on quantum mechanics can be recommended to the physicists. Certainly the best book of all time on quantum mechanics!
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