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I take the best from every one. But GOLD FROM OLD,
There is always something to learn from  MASTERS;

In this age of internet, there is a tendency to open internet and learn from Wikipedia and similar sites. While this has its own advantages for  a mature learner, I recommend that a beginner must learn from the masters even though the learning curve may look very steep.

This collection is an attempt to encourage younger generation to leart role of contibuting  to the subject and from the very best.

There are many who contributed to pedgogy and teaching. Many old texts become 'obsolete' simply because is it fashionable to go for the latest.  It would be foolhardy to ignore these and other works, so we include here snippets and quotes etc. from many other sources too.

It is  hoped this will provide incentive to the younger generations to ask for more.

"Choose the very best from every one" 

 

 

In our times a several statements in various books by masters, to use today's social media jargon,  went viral.  
To set the tone for what is in store, a few snippets are included here: 

J. J. Sakurai, "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" (1970) 

" .. We see a number of sophisticated, yet uneducated, thoereticians who are conversant in the LSZ
formalism of the Heisenberg field operators, but  do not know why an excited atom radiates, or
ignorant of quantum theoretic derivation of Rayleigh's  law that accounts for blueness of the sky. .."

Res Jost, "General Theory of Quantized Fields" (1965)

"In the thirties, under the demoralizing  influence of quantum theoretic perturbation theory, the mathematics
required of  a  theoretical physicist  was reduced to a rudimentary knowledge of the
Latin and Greek alphabets."

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