From 7ad3b8aef5ad4492e94d350c0ce32d89797b3cab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bryan newbold Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:34:55 -0500 Subject: cleanup, fixed some math --- books/WantedBooks | 33 --------------------------------- books/wanted books | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 books/WantedBooks create mode 100644 books/wanted books (limited to 'books') diff --git a/books/WantedBooks b/books/WantedBooks deleted file mode 100644 index 51b0361..0000000 --- a/books/WantedBooks +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -================================= -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 - -Novels ------------ - - * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem - * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem - * **V.** by Thomas Pynchon - -Other -------- - * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith - diff --git a/books/wanted books b/books/wanted books new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c29a2e --- /dev/null +++ b/books/wanted books @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +================================= +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