What are the best books to learn Mathematics and Physics?

I don't know! But here are some that I enjoy or that I believe might help.

Posted by Lorenzo Agabiti on May 8, 2025

I will include books and lecture notes in topics that I studied and that I feel fairly knowledgeable about.

Key

green = read and recommended by me

red = difficult to read

pink = elementary

grey = classic

blue = lecture notes



Real and Complex Analysis

Introductory

  • Modern Real Analysis by William P. Ziemer
  • Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott
  • Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
  • Analysis Now by Gert K. Pedersen

Advanced

  • Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations by Gerald B. Folland
  • Real and Complex Analysis by Walter Rudin

Functional Analysis

  • Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations by Haim Brezis
  • Functional Analysis by Walter Rudin
  • Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications by Erwin Kreyszig
  • Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis by George F. Simmons
  • History of Functional Analysis by Jean Dieudonné
  • A course in Functional Analysis by John B. Conway
  • Nonlinear Functional Analysis by Klaus Deimling
  • Functional Analysis by Peter D. Lax
  • Real and Functional Analysis by Serge Lang

Measure Theory

Introductory

  • Measure Theory by by D.H.Fremlin
  • Lebesgue Measure on Euclidean space by Frank Jone
  • An introduction to measure theory by Terence Tao

Advanced

  • Measure Theory Volume I by V.I. Bogachev
  • Measure Theory Volume II by V.I. Bogachev
  • Measure Theory by Paul R. Halmos
  • Gaussian Measures by V.I. Bogachev

Stochastic Calculus

  • Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications by Fima C. Klebaner
  • Stochastic Differential Equations by Bernt Oksendal
  • A first Course in Stochastic Processes by Samuel Karlin and Howard M. Taylor
  • Introduction to Probability Models by Sheldon M. Ross
  • Brownian Motion - An Introduction to Stochastic Processes by René Schilling and Lothar Partzsch

Stochastic Calculus Applied to Finance

  • Stochastic Calculus and Finance by Steven E. Shreve
  • Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications by Michael Steele
  • Mathematical Finance by Ernst Eberlein and Jan Kallsen
  • Interest Rate Models-Theory and Practice by Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio
  • The Volatility Surface-A Practitioner's Guide by Jim Gatheral

Finance

  • Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull
  • Commodities and Commodity Derivatives by Hélyette Geman
  • Corporate Finance by Jonathan B. Berk and Peter DeMarzo

Quantum Mechanics

  • Quantum Mechanics-A Paradigms Approach by David H. McIntyre
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths
  • Lectures on Quantum Mechanics by Steven Weinberg
  • Quantum Theory for Mathematicians by Brian C. Hall
  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
  • Modern Quantum Mechanics by J.J. Sakurai
  • Topics in Quantum Mechanics by David Tong

Quantum Field Theory

  • What is a Quantum Field Theory?-A First Introduction for Mathematicians by Michel Talagrand
  • Quantum Field Theory-A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians by Gerald B. Folland
  • Quantum Field Theory and the Critical Phenomena by Jean Zinn-Justin
  • An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder
  • Quantum Field Theory by Mark Srednicki
  • Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Matthew D. Schwartz
  • The Quantum Theory of Fields by Steven Weinberg
  • Quantum Field Theory-A Modern Perspective by V. Parameswaran Nair
  • Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell by A. Zee
  • The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory by Bryce DeWitt
  • Stochastic Quantization by Pout H. Damgaard and Helmuth Huffel
  • Quantum Field Theory by David Tong
  • Quantum Field Theory by Sidney Coleman
  • Quantum Field Theory I by Arthur Hebecker
  • Quantum Field Theory by Liam Fitzpatrick
  • Quantum Field Theory by Timo Weigand
  • 6 Lectures on QFT, RG and SUSY by Timothy J. Hollowood
  • Quantum Field Theory II by David Skinner
  • The Standard Model by David Tong

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

  • Stochastic Equations in Infinite Dimensions by Giuseppe Da Prato and Jerzy Zabczyk
  • A Course on Rough Paths-With an introduction to regularity structures by Peter K. Friz and Martin Hairer
  • Stochastic PDEs, Regularity Structures, and Interacting Particle Systems by Ajay Chandra and Hendrik Weber
  • Paracontrolled distributions and singular PDEs Massimiliano Gubinelli, Peter Imkeller and Nicolas Perkowski