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Manfred comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong Discussion

99 Post author: lukeprog 15 September 2012 12:32AM

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Comment author: Manfred 15 September 2012 01:20:46AM *  6 points [-]

Likewise, much of the Quantum Physics sequence can be found in quantum physics textbooks, e.g. Sakurai & Napolitano (2010).

I don't think Sakurai is the best reference here - most of an introductory QM book will be about what particles do in the presence of forces, and treats identical particles in a more complicated language because they can be either fermions or bosons.

A better text would be an introduction for people who want to do quantum computing - those people get to use all the nice abstractions and let the physicists worry about the particles in the presence of forces behind those abstractions :P An example I was able to dig up from a course syllabus was (Robert, not David) Griffiths' Consistent Quantum Theory.

EDIT: Ah, of course the best reference is Feynman's QED.