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Resources for aspiring mathematical physicists

The GAP minimal curriculum

The GAP graduate curriculum

Basic online resources

MIT OpenCourseWare: Physics | Mathematics

The Feynman lectures in physics

t'Hooft's How to become a good theoretical physicist

David Tong: Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Leonard Susskind's Theoretical minimum

Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive: PIRSA

Note: For mathematical subjects mentioned in the links below, please refer to the MSC classification.

General references on "geometry and physics"

Introductory to intermediate

Jost, Geometry and physics

Fecko, Differential geometry and Lie groups for physicists

Isham, Modern differential geometry for physicists

Burke, Applied differential geometry

Bleecker, Gauge theory and variational principles

Baez and Muniain, Gauge fields, knots and gravity

Frankel, The geometry of physics

Hamilton, Mathematical gauge theory

Advanced

Boss and Bleecker, Topology and analysis: the Atiyah-Singer index formula and gauge-theoretic physics

Nash, Differential topology and quantum field theory

Dunajski, Solitons, instantons and twistors

Deligne et al, Quantum fields and strings: a course for mathematicians

Recommended books and articles by subject

Classical mechanics

Special and general relativity

Classical electrodynamics and classical field theory 

Statistical physics

Quantum mechanics

Quantum field theory

Quantum field theory on curved spacetime

Supersymmetry and supergavity

Integrable systems

Conformal field theory

String theory

Some references for basic mathematical culture

Bourbaki, Elements de Mathematique

Rudin, Real and complex analysis

Taylor, Partial Differential Equations, vols. I-III

Hormander, The analysis of linear partial differential operators, vols. I-IV

Bredon, Topology and geometry

Spanier, Algebraic Topology

Spivak, A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry, vols. I-V

Kobayashi & Nomizu, Foundations of differential geometry

Besse, Einstein manifolds

Griffiths and Harris, Principles of algebraic geometry

Matsumura, Commutative ring theory

Mac Lane, Categories for the working mathematician