Curriculums for self-teaching
July 24, 2023 11:42 AM   Subscribe

I just found and loved this curriculum of textbooks and other readings for teaching oneself to a graduate-level understanding of physics (and the math to go with it). Where are some other lists of resources like this for other subjects? (Wouldn't mind more physics resources, as I did just see Oppenheimer.)

Preferably STEM-related, but I'm interested in most anything. More math = better. Ideally will contain academic texts (a sprinkling of popular works is OK) and a focus on solving or working out problems in order to understand things (which I realize may not be possible for certain topics like history).
posted by miltthetank to Education (6 answers total) 39 users marked this as a favorite
 
One thing you could do (especially useful in Humanities-type fields) is go to grad school websites and look up their recommended reading lists. I googled "phd in math reading list" and found this (PDF) reading list from Southeastern Louisiana University. Substitute whatever field you're interested in!
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:52 AM on July 24, 2023 [4 favorites]


You can find a lot of materials on MIT's OpenCourseWare.
posted by pangolin party at 11:53 AM on July 24, 2023 [2 favorites]


I have watched and loved most of Leonard Susskind's series The Theoretical Minimum.
The lectures are available on the site under courses, and there are companion books available from the usual sources.
I'll admit I can only go so far into each topic before I hit the mathematics wall, but he's incredibly good at building the foundations for his maths and these lectures have taken me much much farther than I had ever been before.
Lenny's a treasure.
posted by OHenryPacey at 12:04 PM on July 24, 2023 [5 favorites]


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posted by sulaine at 5:45 PM on July 24, 2023




I remember doing the Theoretical Minimum (the book). It started out fine, and the explanations were lucid and well done. Then somewhere around the middle of the book, they lost that lucidity. The best educationals see things from the viewpoint of the questioning learner and brings them along. Those first few chapters were great in that sense. The latter few, not so much.
posted by storybored at 8:28 PM on July 28, 2023


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