Recommended General Mathematics Reading
Here are some suggestions for general mathematical physics and chemistry.
Book: "Mathematical Physics" by Eugene Butkov, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1968)
This is a classic textbook used in mathematical physics courses since its first edition in 1968. You can find PDFs lying about on the internet. The book is suitable for all students of quantum chemistry, from undergraduate to graduate students.
The topics covered include:
Book: "Mathematical Methods for Physicsts: A Comprehensive Guide" by George B. Arfken, Hans J. Weber, and Frank E. Harris, 7th edition, Academic Press (2013)
Weblink: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123846549/mathematical-methods-for-physicists
Archived version: https://archive.org/details/Mathematical_Methods_for_Physicists
Another classic, the tome by Arfken, Weber, and Harris is a standard textbook in mathematical physics for undergraduate and graduate students in physics. Luckily, it is archived on archive.org, see link above. It is highly recommended, and contains treatments of, for example:
Book: "Mathematical Methods in Physics" by Philippe Blanchard and Erwin Brüning, Second edition, Birkhäuser (2015)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14045-2
This is a textbook intended for graduate students in mathematics and physics. Its level is higher and in some respects more modern than the book by Butkov. The topics covered include:
Book: "Mathematical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics" by Stephen J. Gustaffson, and Israel Michael Sigal, Second Edition, Springer (2011).
An old PDF from Sigal's web site: https://www.math.toronto.edu/~sigal/semlectnotes/1.pdf
This book is essentially a set of lecture notes given for physics and mathematics students at late undergraduate or early graduate stages of their studies. It is a well-structured book on what the title says. I use it quite a lot, as it contains many useful results. The topics include:
Book: "Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics: With Applications
to Schrödinger Operators" by Gerald Teschl, Seccond ed., American Mathematical Society (2014).
Web link: https://bookstore.ams.org/gsm-157
Full text PDF at the Author's web site: https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/book-schroe/index.html
This is a modern classic in mathematical physics, its primary goal is the rigorous treatment of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Topics include:
Book series: "Methods of modern mathematical physics", by Michael Reed and Barry Simon, Academic Press (1980)
There are some links to the full text in the wild:
https://www.astrosen.unam.mx/~aceves/Metodos/ebooks/reed_simon1.pdf
A comprehensive book series with advanced treatments of, well, the methods of mathematical physics. The volumes are:
This is the volume I am personally acquainted with. Some topics covered are:
In this sections you can find some sources I have found online that may be useful. However, I have not checked their quality, and your mileage might vary:
Book: "Mathematical Physical Chemistry: Practical and Intuitive Methodology" by Shu Hotta, Third Edition, Springer (2023)
This book is somewhat odd - it is not a mathematics book, for that it is not sufficiently rigorous, and neither is it a physical chemistry textbook. However, it goes through the classical selection of physical chemistry topics in a more mathematical manner, providing detailed derivations along the way. It reads like your usual typed-up lecture notes from a theory-heavy physical chemistry curse. It seems like an excellent companion to studies in physical chemistry, and in particular a very good way for students to learn and understand the mathematical concepts needed for quantum chemistry.