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		queuebert 19 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025) I think the course by Richard Fitzpatrick is a much better selection of content if you want to actually do computational physics: https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf

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redbluered 13 hours ago [–]

Should be modernized to Python or similar.

In 2026, I don't want to do numerical programming in C. That was fine 30 years ago, but today, I expect to have garbage collection or to be able to multiply a matrix as A×B.

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