From cc9cdbee92aa6d148a1524ebccbd19d89f90e1d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:08:23 -0500 Subject: books tweaks --- books/wanted books.page | 59 ------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 59 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 books/wanted books.page (limited to 'books/wanted books.page') diff --git a/books/wanted books.page b/books/wanted books.page deleted file mode 100644 index 46143c6..0000000 --- a/books/wanted books.page +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ ---- -format: rst -categories: book -toc: no -... - -================================= -Wanted Books -================================= - -These are some books i'd love to own a copy of or at least read through -carefully. - -Technical ------------- - - * **Visual Complex Analysis** by Tristan Needham - * **Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment** by Ben Fry - * **General Theory of Relativity** by P. A.M. Dirac - * **Computability and Unsolvability** by Martin Davis - * **Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics** by John von Neumann - * **Real and Complex Analysis** by Walter Rudin - * **Art of Computer Programming** by Donald E. Knuth - * **Gravitation** by MTW - * **Euclid's Elements** - * **C Programming Language** by Brian W. Kernighan - * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch - -Math -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -(I haven't really looked in to most of these, just sound interesting) - - - * `On formally undecidable propositions of Principa Mathematica and related systems`:title:, by Kurt Godel. - * `Computability and Unsolvability`:title:, by Martin Davis. - * `Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory`:title:, by A.I. Khinchin. - * `Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering`:title:, by Robert Weinstock. - * `Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology`:title:, by Richard Tolman. - * `Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics`:title:, by Lee Segel. - * `Optimization Theory and Applications`:title:, by Donald Pierre. - * `The Variational Principles of Mechanics`:title:, by Cornelius Lanczos. - * `Tensor Analysis for Physicists`:title:, by J.A. Schonten. - * `Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement`:title:, by Albert Einstein. - * `Great Experiments in Physics`:title:, ed. by ???. - * `Curvature and Homology`:title:, by Samuel Goldberd. - * `The Philosophy of Mathematics`:title:, by Stephan Korner. - * `The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli`:title:, by A. Ramelli (!). - * `Experiments in Topology`:title:, by Stephan Barr. - -Novels ------------ - - * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem - * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem - -Other -------- - * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith - -- cgit v1.2.3