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+Wanted Books
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+
+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**, by Kurt Godel. 
+ * **Computability and Unsolvability**, by Martin Davis. 
+ * **Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory**, by A.I. Khinchin. 
+ * **Calculus of Variations with Applications to Physics and Engineering**, by Robert Weinstock. 
+ * **Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology**, by Richard Tolman.
+ * **Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics**, by Lee Segel.
+ * **Optimization Theory and Applications**, by Donald Pierre.
+ * **The Variational Principles of Mechanics**, by Cornelius Lanczos.
+ * **Tensor Analysis for Physicists**, by J.A. Schonten.
+ * **Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement**, by Albert Einstein.
+ * **Great Experiments in Physics**, ed. by ???.
+ * **Curvature and Homology**, by Samuel Goldberd.
+ * **The Philosophy of Mathematics**, by Stephan Korner.
+ * **The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli**, by A. Ramelli (!).
+ * **Experiments in Topology**, by Stephan Barr.
+
+Novels
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+
+ * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem
+ * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem
+
+Other
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+ * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith
+