--- 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 * **Euclid's Elements** * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch * **The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing** by Steven Smith * **21st Century C** by Ben Klemens 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. Computer Security ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * **Beautiful Security** by Andy Oram and John Viega * **Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++** by John Viega and Matt Messier Novels ----------- * **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem * **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem * **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** by Heinlen * **Babel-17** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17) SciFi, a language is invented to be used as a weapon * **The Mote in God's Eye** by Niven and Pournelle * **The Windup Girl** by Paolo Bacigalupi * **A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!** by Harry Harrison * **Red Sorghum** by Mo Yan * **Big Breasts & Wide Hips** by Mo Yan * **Journey to the West** * **Dream of the Red Chamber** Non-Fiction ----------- * **Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons** by J. Carter and R. Wilson (JPL founder) * **The Guttenberg Galaxy** by M. McLuhan (media format leading to cognative structure) * **The Gift** by Marcell M (?) Other ------- * **Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow** by Zak Smith * **The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783** by A.T. Mahan * **A Perfect Vacuum** by Stanislaw Lem (fictional book reviews) * **Imaginary Magnitude** by Stanislaw Lem (fictional book introductions) * **Doktor Sleepless** by Warren Ellis * Rules for Radicals * Sun in a Bottle * I am a Strange Loop * Fenman and Computation * How Buildings Learn * Whole Earth Discipline * Bertrand Russell's Problems of Philosophy * Planning for Freedom * Robert's Nonstandard Analysis * de Beauvior's Ethics of Ambiguity * Knuth's Surreal Numbers List of Lists --------------- * `huge reddit sci-fi list `_