# Self-StudyTextbook recommendations for Modern Differential Geometry for Physicists

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Please make a recommendation from the following 6 textbooks;

Nakahara, Topology, Geometry and Physics

Frankel, Geometry of Physics

Nash, Topology and Geometry for Physicists

Schutz, Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics

Lovelock, Tensors, Differential Forms and Variational Principles

Baez, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity

Isham, Modern Differential Geometry for Physicists

Which of these is pedagogically the easiest to learn from for self-study? What are advantages of each? Which of these has the most standard notation used by the majority of physicists today (I want to be able to read the literature afterwards)?

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