Comment by def-pri-pub
5 days ago
These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.
5 days ago
These are books that my uni courses never had me read. I'm a little shocked at times at how my degree program skimped on some of the more famous texts.
It is not a textbook, it is an extremely dense reference manual, so that honestly makes sense.
In physics grad school, professors would occasionally allude to it, and textbooks would cite it ... pretty often. So it's a thing anyone with postgraduate physics education should know exists, but you wouldn't ever be assigned it.
Presumably someone read it though, at some point, in order to be able to cite it.
The relevant sections, at any rate
I didn't need Abramowitz and Stegun until grad school. In the 1990s. It was a well-known reference book for people at that level, not a text book.
For my undergrad the CRC math handbook was enough.