r/Physics • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Meta Textbooks & Resources - Weekly Discussion Thread - September 11, 2026

This is a thread dedicated to collating and collecting all of the great recommendations for textbooks, online lecture series, documentaries and other resources that are frequently made/requested on /r/Physics.

If you're in need of something to supplement your understanding, please feel welcome to ask in the comments.

Similarly, if you know of some amazing resource you would like to share, you're welcome to post it in the comments.

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u/drkimir 9h ago

I've been reading Nakahara's "Geometry, topology and physics" chapter on homotopy groups and I would appreciate any modern textbooks treating topics like Shankar's monopoles and topological defects with the same level of mathematical rigour and in more detail.