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Risto_Saarelma comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 01 October 2012 11:25:35AM 6 points [-]

Via John Baez: Mathematics for theoretical physics, a 700-odd page self-contained reference to all the maths you supposedly need to have some idea what contemporary theoretical physicists are talking about.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2012 08:43:26PM 4 points [-]

I saw this pop on arXiv, but I doubt it will be very useful to anyone who doesn't know most of the stuff in it beforehand. The exposition is pretty terse, and there are well over 1000 stated theorems.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2012 02:23:56PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. I'll take a glance at it when I have some spare time.