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Reorganization suggestion
What would people think of reorganizing not by date but by approximate reading level? This would make the list more useful. Brief annotations on some of the items would be nice too. I suggest creating a separate category for 'non-equilibrium statistical mechanics', which would include kinetic theory. I know of several important books that could fill this out.
At some point I would like to rearrange into approximate reading level, but we should have third-party sources to tell us what's what. As for google citation count: I do not understand why people keep proposing that, it is both original research and an unreliable source. It is unacceptable to include here. Notability can be found by searching scholarly articles for references to the books in question. Footlessmouse (talk) 00:31, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Lots of notable books
Hi all, so check it out, WP notability criteria for books is really low-offensively low in comparison to the high bar for academics, but that's beside the point. Two points
Books have to have ISBN (if published after 1975) and must be officially cataloged in its country of origin (like library of congress).
Other than that, it can meet any of these and be wiki-notable WP:BKCRIT
Has been the subject of two or more reviews
the book has been "the subject of instruction at two or more schools, colleges, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country"
The author "is so historically significant that any of the author's written works may be considered notable."
So many of the books on the list qualify, i have added reviews for them and you can see many are notable enough for their own page. So, if you are interested, have fun! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. @Nerd271: any thoughts? Footlessmouse (talk) 23:40, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Which one? This list contains only his book on thermal physics. He apparently wrote another one for statistical mechanics, too. Regardless, good luck and fair seas! Nerd271 (talk) 18:29, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
His solid-state physics textbook appears to be quite popular. His statistical physics textbook is published by Dover (that means it's old but cheap). You can find it on Amazon. Nerd271 (talk) 19:04, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]