<story><title>Mathematics for Physics (2009) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_v7gu</author><text>On the other side of the spectrum, I would recommend Spivak&amp;#x27;s Physics for Mathematicians [1] strongly. I don&amp;#x27;t think anything else could come close for a mathematician who wants to learn physics.&lt;p&gt;[] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Michael-Spivak&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0914098322&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Mich...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaysonL</author><text>And if the price is a bit much for you, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alpha.math.uga.edu&amp;#x2F;~shifrin&amp;#x2F;Spivak_physics.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alpha.math.uga.edu&amp;#x2F;~shifrin&amp;#x2F;Spivak_physics.pdf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;Elementary Mechanics from a Mathematician&amp;#x27;s Viewpoint&lt;/i&gt; which is based on eight lectures Spivak gave in 2004, and which he says &amp;quot;As explained in Lecture 1, these lectures cover material that I had just finished writing, and which I hope will constitute the ˇrst part of a book on Mechanics for Mathematicians.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mathematics for Physics (2009) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PostScript/MS_PG_book/bookmaster.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_v7gu</author><text>On the other side of the spectrum, I would recommend Spivak&amp;#x27;s Physics for Mathematicians [1] strongly. I don&amp;#x27;t think anything else could come close for a mathematician who wants to learn physics.&lt;p&gt;[] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Michael-Spivak&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0914098322&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Physics-Mathematicians-Mechanics-Mich...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imranq</author><text>As someone with a mathematical background, I was wondering what were some motivations for wanting to &amp;quot;learn physics&amp;quot;? Not being argumentative, just genuinely curious on what drives people to self study textbooks on physics after college&amp;#x2F;grad school.</text></comment>