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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
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Some recs:

  • For optics: Introduction to Fourier Optics by Goodman. Much better than Optics by Hecht. Principles of Optics by Born and Wolf is also wonderful if you have a strong math background.
  • For biomedical optics: Quantitative Biomedical Optics: Theory, Methods, and Applications by Bigio and Fantini is great. Way better than Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging by Wang and Wu.
  • For nonlinear optics: Nonlinear Optics by Boyd is great.
  • For electrodynamics: Modern Electrodynamics by Zangwill is wonderful. It's more advanced and mathematically sophisticated than Griffith's and I prefer it over Jackson.
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