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Books on Quantum Mechanics?
manjunaths asks: "I would like to ask the physicists here to recommend some books on Quantum Mechanics. For those of us who have a decent background in calculus and have done some advanced physics (field theory, network theory etc.,). The books must have math as well as theoretical explanation. If it has examples which explain/relate to real world physics that would be really nice."
There is absolutely no question. David Griffith's Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is by far the best intro book out there.
hmmm...i don't think i'd go quite that far. I just finished a two semester intro to quantum mechanics. Most of my classmates used Griffiths, but I chose Shankar's "Principles of Quantum Mechanics." Although Shankar places more demands on the reader initially(by way of mathematical formalism), it definitely pays off in the long run! Near the end of the course, when we delved into particle phyics and the standard model, I felt far more prepared then my classmates.
On a side note, his introduction to functional analysis and Dirac delta functions was awesome. First time I understood it.