— popular science books

• six easy pieces; richard p. feynman
• six not so easy pieces; richard p. feynman
• alex adventures in numberland; alex bellos
• physics of impossible; michio kaku
• quantum; manjit kumar
• search of schrodinger's cat; john gribbin
• the elegant universe; brian greene

— textbooks

• mathematical methods for physics and engineering; m. k. hobson
• fundamentals of physics; halliday, resnick, walker
• div, grad, curl, and all that; h. m. schey