[Koshkin]

I wonder what a good textbook on theoretical physics would look like if it assumed all the math involved as a prerequisite. (Say, a 10-volume set "compressed" into, what, 300 pages still containing a complete treatment of the subject?)

[yummypaint]

Jackson's electrodynamics is probably the closest thing to this I've seen. He often mentions offhand that it's trivial to show one thing or another, but when you actually do the derivation it's many pages.