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+=================================
+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
+