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Title: It has its uses
Review: I write this review because I believe the other two reviews in the customer section give the wrong impression. The material in Arfken should be known by any beginning graduate student in physics. If however one is not familiar with all the topics, one should study an undergraduate textbook concerned with the area of deficiency (which ever is most popular for that subject). Arfken is then best used to jar the memory with examples that are often abridged examples from the aforementioned undergraduate texts. As for an undergraduate taking a course where Arfken is the primary text, I'm confused. Obviously you should know everything in Arfken but he doesn't get to the meat of any given subject. You might as well get cliff notes for physics. (Schaums)
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