Roger, Thanks for the recommendation. Sarah had bought a copy of Pauling's 'Introduction to Quantum Mechanics' and it had sat at my periphery until the other night when I read your post. In one of those few moments of invincible lucidity, I managed to read the first 120 pages, deeply satisfying many of my curiosities. Pauling's exposition was surprisingly clear, though I must mention that he also does not mention the direct connection between Legendre polynomials and spherical harmonics (thanks wiki!).
Cheers, Jonathan Zingale
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