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Theoretical Physics

• Classical Physics

• Electromagnetism

  • Introduction to Electrodynamics by D.J. Griffiths.

  • Electrodynamics by J.D. Jackson.

  • Electromagnetic theory by Julius Adams Stratton

  • Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity by John Baez.

  • Classical Theory of Fields by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz.

  • Check BLS Suggested Readings

• Quantum Mechanics

  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths

• Special Relativity

• General Relativity

  • Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, and Kip Thorne

  • The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Stephen Hawking and George Ellis

  • Spacetime and Geometry by Sean Carroll

• Statistical Physics

• Quantum Field Theory

  • The Quantum Theory of Fields by S. Weinberg

  • Relativistic Quantum Fields by Bjorken and Drell

  • An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael Peskin and Daniel Schroeder

  • Local Quantum Physics by Rudolf Haag

• Particle Physics

  • Introduction to Elementary Particles by D. Griffiths

• Conformal Field Theory

  • The standard references include big yellow (Conformal Field Theory) book by David Sènèchal, Philippe d. Francesco, and Pierre Mathieu and this review by P. Ginsparg.

  • Introduction to Conformal Field Theory by Erik Plauschinn and Ralph Blumenhagen

• Supersymmetry

  • Supergravity (SUGRA) book by Freedman & Proeyen (pdf)

  • Supergravity by Nieuwenhuizen (link)

  • Lecture notes on Supersymmetry by David Tong (link)

• AdS/CFT

  • Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity by O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz (available arXiv)

• String Theory

  • Superstring Theory: Volumes 1 and 2 by Green, Schwarz, and Witten

  • String Theory Vol 1 and 2 by Joseph Polchinski

  • D-Branes by Clifford Johnson (pdf)

  • A first course in string theory by Barton Zweibach

• Quantum Information Theory

• Black Holes Information Problem

  • Jerusalem Lectures on Black Holes and Quantum Information by Daniel Harlow (available arXiv)

Mathematics

• Number Theory

  • An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright

• Abstract Algebra

  • Introduction to Commutative Algebra by Michael Aityah and Ian G. Macdonald

  • Commutative Algebra with a view towards Algebraic Geometry by David Eisenbud

  • Abstract Algebra by David Steven Dummit and Richard M. Foote

  • Algebra by Thomas W. Hungerford

  • Commutative Algebra by N. Bourbaki

• Galois Theory

• Linear Algebra

  • Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler

  • Linear Algebra by Serge Lang

  • Finite-dimensional vector spaces by Paul Halmos

  • Check MLS Suggested Readings

• Differential Geometry

• Algebraic Geometry

  • Algebraic Geometry by Hartshone

  • The Rising Sea - Notes on Algebraic Geometry by Ravi Vakil (available here)

  • Notes on Algebraic Geometry by JS Milne (available here)

  • Algebraic Curves by Fulton

• Non-commutative Geometry

  • Noncommutative Geometry by Alain Connes (pdf available)

• Category Theory

• Topology

  • Introduction to Topology by Mendelson

  • Topology by James Munkers

• Algebraic Topology

  • Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott

  • Algebraic Topology by Allan Hatcher (available here)

  • Lectures on Algebraic Topology by Haynes Miller

• Logic

• Statistics and Probability

• Representation Theory

• Operator Algebra