--- 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