THE BEST BOOK ON QUANTUM MECHANICS
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This is the Volume 3 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 3 treats the subject of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. It contains a large amount of subjects, is very detailed, rigorous, and contain topics not usually found in other textbooks, such as for example the theory of symmetry, the quantum mechanics of polyatomic molecules and topics relating to the nuclear structure. It still contains a mathematical appendice on special functions used in quantum mechanics, which makes the book practically self contained. No better textbook on quantum mechanics can be recommended to the physicists. Certainly the best book of all time on quantum mechanics!
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A work of art and a marvellous textbook
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If you study on your own (and you should!), there is no better companion. Landau's (and Lifshitz') knack for developing simultaneously the mathematics and the physics of quantum mechanics reaches here unprecedent levels. Both the theory and the applications are masterfully developed. The chapters on angular momentum, with the definitive introduction to, and application of, spinors, the study of symmetry, including a very lucid introduction to group theory, the treatment of the Thomas-Fermi atomic model, of the Periodic Table, the incredible appendix on the so-called special functions... On retrospect I realize I have been reading this book since it first appeared in English, always learning, always delighted with it.
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