Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

Mary Boas wrote one of my fav books targeting folks in the physical sciences: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Science... (https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physical-Sciences-Mary/dp/0471198269)

I dunno about SICP-like, but here's some good book lists https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib (updated Univ of Chicago bibliography http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/course/schedules.pdf ______________________ and 2 i got from HN and /r/machineLearning http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach... (http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/machine_learning_books/) https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... (https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#machine-learning) ________________________ finally, the "Maths for PHysics" texts http://www.scribd.com/doc/156523189/Boas-mathematical-Method... (http://www.scribd.com/doc/156523189/Boas-mathematical-Methods-in-the-Physical-Sciences-pdf) http://www.goldbart.gatech.edu/PG_MS_MfP.htm http://www.scribd.com/doc/91670553/Arfken-Math-Physics ___________________ (if i had to recommend only one book, it would be the Boas, or maybe Princeton Companion: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html