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 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/wanted-books.page (limited to 'books/wanted-books.page') diff --git a/books/wanted-books.page b/books/wanted-books.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6193aa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/wanted-books.page @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +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**, 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 +----------- + + * **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