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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 
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 * **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
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(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