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Today i'm reading the intro part of the book that talks about different types of telescopes. I might have read it before but i guess i should be familiar with them. When I talk with my fellow astronomer friends, I want ...

I have always liked Feynman as a physicist - I felt like his lectures might be too good not to be read during grad school. Today I am reading the E&M part - since I am a E&M TA this quarter. I am starting from the very first chapter where ...

To best honest I never read the book very carefully when it was used as the text for my 2nd year cosmology data analysis class (sorry Chris). It is actually quite a fun read since it started by describing the important stat. developments throughout history in the first chapter and ...