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What in the world are you talking about? Griffiths is substantially worse than shankar.

Griffiths doesn't even get into Hilbert spaces until chapter three, at which point he delivers a broken and incomprehensible explanation. He attempts to teach Hilbert operators by analogy to the multiplication or application by adjacency people use in normal arithmetic. This is a terrible approach, and confuses the hell out of students who haven't already taken abstract algebra.

In what way is Shankar less rigorous than Griffiths?



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