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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
 * **Euclid's Elements**
 * **Mathematical Physics** by Robert Geroch
 * **The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing** by Steven Smith

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
 * **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

Non-Fiction
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 * **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)

Other
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 * **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
 * What Technology Wants
 * Knuth's Surreal Numbers

List of Lists
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 * `huge reddit sci-fi list <http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/brm9y/have_you_seen_this_its_a_really_good_guide/c0o8kah>`_