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The discussion centers on the book "Calculus: The Elements" by Michael Comenetz, which is aimed at undergraduate students with a prerequisite knowledge of high school mathematics. The author previously wrote a prepublication review praising the book, but notes that its price has significantly increased since then. There is a consideration of the book as a potential alternative text for Calculus III. A key concern raised is whether the book is accessible for students who have a solid understanding of typical Calculus I and II topics, specifically regarding the clarity of its language and the need for external guidance from professors to understand the material.

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Bookmarking for consideration as an alternative calc 3 text. Would this text be accessible to someone with a decent mastery of typical Calc I/II topics without having to resort to talk with professors to wade through the jargon?
 

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The book is fascinating. If your education includes a typical math degree curriculum, with Lebesgue integration, functional analysis, etc, it teaches QFT with only a passing acquaintance of ordinary QM you would get at HS. However, I would read Lenny Susskind's book on QM first. Purchased a copy straight away, but it will not arrive until the end of December; however, Scribd has a PDF I am now studying. The first part introduces distribution theory (and other related concepts), which...
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I've gone through the Standard turbulence textbooks such as Pope's Turbulent Flows and Wilcox' Turbulent modelling for CFD which mostly Covers RANS and the closure models. I want to jump more into DNS but most of the work i've been able to come across is too "practical" and not much explanation of the theory behind it. I wonder if there is a book that takes a theoretical approach to Turbulence starting from the full Navier Stokes Equations and developing from there, instead of jumping from...
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