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2015-01-06 12:08 6992604 Anonymous (books.jpg 1200x1060 226kB)
Let's get a books thread going /sci/ Textbooks and non-textbooks Post only the books you really liked and that you consider a must read.

7 min later 6992633 Anonymous
I'll start: Book of Proof Baby Rudin GEB SICP C++ in 21 days The Fountainhead Thus Spoke Zarathustra Goethe's Faust Brave New World Enders Game Book of Five Rings

17 min later 6992686 Anonymous
>>6992604 >>6992633 "Chemical Applications of Group Theory" http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.ph p?md5=9ecda03233be1b8032aea4e5a3772 305

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9 hours later 6993628 Anonymous
>>6992633 >Book of Five Rings musashi bro, wasn't he influenced by lao ztu or Buddhism? The concept of emptiness is covered extensively in the tao te ching. I like Machiavelli myself.

9 hours later 6993644 Anonymous
>>6992604 >>6992633 where can I download these for free?

10 hours later 6993660 Anonymous (1398379991127.png 720x1280 180kB)
>>6993644 for science books, always try libgen first

10 hours later 6993664 Anonymous (31jh5eL6YVL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg 241x346 9kB)
Made me realize I really don't want to pursue computer science on graduate level and that I should jump ships.

10 hours later 6993708 Anonymous
The Book of the New Sun Lord Jim À la recherche du temps perdu Notes from the House of the Dead The Setting Sun The Hunger Games Inherent Vice Die Kehre

11 hours later 6993901 Anonymous
>>6993708 >he reads trivial literature

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>>6992604 This one is recommended particularly for OP

11 hours later 6993924 Anonymous
>>6992604 Non-Fiction: Guns, Germs and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond are good for understanding human history and evolution. The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene for basic understanding of modern physics and the universe. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn The Autobiography of Malcolm X For fiction: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Most books by Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut Tolkein, Dune series Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 1984 - George Orwell

12 hours later 6993944 Anonymous
>>6992604 History of time

12 hours later 6993959 Anonymous (th.jpg 480x360 30kB)
>>6993901 I bet that statement isn't even falsifiable.

12 hours later 6993974 Anonymous
>>6992604 I don't knw why, but Sun Tzu's Art of War was a pretty interesting book. Also Sherlock Holmes 1984 Lord of the Rings No More Mr. Nice Guy Fight Club The Bible (I'm not a Christian) Marcus Aurelius' Meditations How to make people Like you in 90 seconds or less

12 hours later 6993975 Anonymous
Anybody read Connectome? Recommend it?

12 hours later 6993976 Anonymous
Death By Black Hole Principia A Brief History of Time

12 hours later 6993997 Anonymous
I would recommend either The Book of Proof or How To Prove It as well as any introductory book on formal logic (the The Logic Book for example) supplemented by Simpsons mathematical logic lecture notes.. >>6992633 >Book of Proof >Baby Rudin it's a shame your list was off to such a good start. >>6993664 The internet says the book is very well written and it covers >point set topology, analysis (Not including integration or measure theory), and operator theory It sounds like an odd list of things, did you use it for a class or read it on your own? >>6993708 >>6993974 >storybooks >>6993924 Half the books in your non-fiction genre are fiction. >>6993944 >A Brief History of Time It's a nice pop-science book, but I don't know that I would recommend it to people actually interested in science. >>6993976 >Death By Black Hole >A Brief History of Time See above. >Principia There are several Principia you could be referring to, but due to either the rigor or the antiquated writing (depending on the Principia) I highly doubt you read any of them.

12 hours later 6994012 Anonymous
>>6993997 >he doesn't read literature or fiction, and finds no merit whatsoever in either >he doesn't recognize Meditations as a seminal work of philosophy, calling it a "story book" Legitimately_autistic/10. Put down your calculator once in a while, Pee-wee; you might learn something.

12 hours later 6994023 Anonymous
>>6994012 >you might learn something. >Lord of the Rings >Hunger Games lol'd

13 hours later 6994038 Anonymous (83dfad29b30bb11d07563d01686dccde.jpg 349x300 46kB)
>>6994023 There are values spritzed into both. >Lord of the Rings An instructive amalgamation of European folklore and a cultural keystone; great jumping off point for linguistics and philology. >The Hunger Games This one can teach you how to suck a meaner dick, faglord.

13 hours later 6994051 Anonymous (KuroKishi539f3830b9d47[1].jpg 531x471 60kB)
>>6993596 >Modern Physics for Scientists an Engineers

13 hours later 6994057 Anonymous
>>6994051 if only the retards in >>6992859 would read that book, /sci/ would be slightly less shitty

13 hours later 6994059 Anonymous
>>6994057 This is true, but there are many many books that cover the same thing betterer

13 hours later 6994063 Anonymous
>>6994059 it was just the textbook from a modern phys class I took

13 hours later 6994070 Anonymous
>>6994063 >Post only the books you really liked and that you consider a must read.

13 hours later 6994096 Anonymous (1416681357560.jpg 174x185 10kB)
>>6992633 >The Fountainhead >Thus Spoke Zarathustra >Brave New World >Enders Game You're a complete piece of shit and probably a teenagers. I would tell you to read some real Nietzsche but if you think hacks like Ayn Rand and Orson Scott fucking Card are worth reading, then you're too stupid to understand proper literature. There was nothing really wrong with Ender's Game but it's a kid's book, the sequels are far better, and nothing by that retarded wannabe should be posted in a serious thread in the first place. And liking Ayn FUCKING Rand shows that you didn't actually understand a single word of Zarathustra and were just like, >oh wow so cool, maximum edgy, "God is dead lel XD" I'm mad. Read Ecce Homo or The Gay Science.

15 hours later 6994218 Anonymous
>>6994096 You are projecting very much. Enders Game may be a book for kids, like The Little Prince, yet I'd recommend it to every adult who hasn't read it. Both are easy and quick reads, yet you can learn a few new things. As for Rand, she's absolutely a must read. I've met plenty of accomplished, hard working people who agree, so your opinion means nothing to me. As for Zarathustra, I believe I understood it quite well. The Gay Science is supposedly also good, I haven't read it yet. You're just a literary hipster, and I don't care arguing with you, literature is not my profession. If you have some books, list them, if not, go fuck yourself.

15 hours later 6994222 Anonymous (41qgkiFFekL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg 251x346 15kB)
>>6992604 pic related. also, why is Dover Press so fucking based? >textbook on a subject written by some nobody that reads like stereo instructions = 150$+ >Dover book written by a nobel laureate that reads like an actual book = 15$ max

15 hours later 6994227 Anonymous (Electrodynamics.jpg 202x250 5kB)
>>6992604 Griffiths electrodynamics is the best technical book I have had. He has a really good writing style. Just chatty enough

15 hours later 6994243 Anonymous
>>6994222 So much this. Dover is GOAT

15 hours later 6994267 Anonymous
>>6992604 Carlos Ruiz Zafón -Person 0

15 hours later 6994284 Anonymous
>>6994222 Is this textbook really all that great? I always see it on /sci/ and the amazon price is really cheap. What topics does it cover? Would it still be informative to a junior math undergrad?

15 hours later 6994293 Anonymous
>>6994284 >Would it still be informative to a junior math undergrad? no. this book is basically to undo all of the damage of the american public education system. its the book smart kids should have in high school.

15 hours later 6994301 Anonymous
Baby Rudin Spivak's Analysis on Manifolds Fundamentals of Physics (Resnick) Spinoza's Ethics Darkness At Noon I, Claudius Leviathan

18 hours later 6994495 Anonymous
>>6994222 What does this book cover? I've asked before in another thread but didn't get an answer. I'm genuinely interested in reading it.

18 hours later 6994500 Anonymous
>tfw too dumb and not enough attention span to read the majority of these I'm too self-aware for this board.

18 hours later 6994501 Anonymous
>>6994500 >I'm too self-aware lel

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26 hours later 6994888 Anonymous (atkins.jpg 1395x1845 376kB)
Can I (kinda) hijack this thread? dont feel like my idea/request warrants a new thread. What about asking for reccomended books on certain subjects? Personally, I need a big book about statistics, prefereably well written and "easy" to read (=wont bore me to death) with exercises. Essentially, I need a statistics equivalent to ←pic related. Unfortunately, I cant find the english title for it, and i am not sure which of the many books by Peter W. Atkins it is. Those 10kg of colorfull paper managed to get me through 3 chemistry lectures (with good grades to boot), and I hate chemistry lectures. And to keep with the spirit of this thread and add some trivial stuff: Most stuff by Kafka (that guy was nuts, a lot of folks I know hate his works with a passion) Iain M. Banks culture novels. Very weird bbut very entertaining, but again, it might be a love/hate thing.

27 hours later 6994895 Anonymous
>>6994888 This one is used a lot for an intro http://www.amazon.com/Introduction- Mathematical-Statistics-Application s-Edition/dp/0321693949 If not that one search amazon for engineering probability

27 hours later 6994898 Anonymous
>>6993708 >swanns way and hunger games

27 hours later 6994914 Anonymous
>>6993644 SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-t ext/book/book.html http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric al-engineering-and-computer-science /6-001-structure-and-interpretation -of-computer-programs-spring-2005/v ideo-lectures/ http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-sch eme/ http://community.schemewiki.org/?si cp-text-to-video-map

28 hours later 6994937 Anonymous
>>6993660 libgen is kill at the moment

28 hours later 6994943 Anonymous
>>6994937 libgen.in alternative

28 hours later 6994957 Anonymous (1409359398841.jpg 880x1140 97kB)
>>6994943 How hav I been so blind ? Thanks anon

28 hours later 6994966 Anonymous
>>6994227 underrated post

28 hours later 6994986 Anonymous
Hijacking this thread Are there high level physics books written for people who already know the math behind the subject? Differential Geometry etc, but no physics background past Freshman mechanics / E&M.

29 hours later 6994991 Anonymous
>>6994986 Mathematical methods of Classical Mechanics by Arnold. Apparently there is a "Mathematical methods of electrodynamics" in existence now, but I haven't read it. There are a bunch of books on QM and QFT for mathematicians.

29 hours later 6994992 Anonymous
>>6992604 Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles by Eisberg and Resnick (extremely enlightening no matter how many QM courses you've had already) A History of Theories of the Aether and Electricity by Whittaker (should be required reading for any theoretical physicist) The Quantum World Unveiled by Electron Waves by Akira Tonomura The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilzcek (Not that exceptional as a book, but is unusual in containing some actual word-explanations of how QCD was developed and is used)

29 hours later 6994995 Anonymous (perspective-made-easy-dover-art-instruction-download[1].jpg 330x330 15kB)
>>6994222 Dover is the best. Their basedness is not restricted to science and math either, I have some great old-timey art books from them.

29 hours later 6995015 Anonymous
>>6994986 Spivak also has a book that builds out of his differential geometry book. Physics for Mathematicians, Mechanics I

29 hours later 6995017 Anonymous
Axler Linear Algebra Done Right Spivak Calculus Baby Rudin Munkres Analysis on Manifolds Munkres Topology Pinter A Book of Abstract Algebra Enderton Elements of Set Theory You undergrad now.

29 hours later 6995028 Anonymous
Mein Kazinga - Dr. Bazingo Guy

30 hours later 6995057 Anonymous
>>6995017 Going through that Munkres Analysis book right now. The exercises in the differentiation section are painful at times, in a bad way, but otherwise yeah good book.

30 hours later 6995072 Anonymous
>>6995017 Is Enderton's Set Theory naive or axiomatic? The rest of your list sounds pretty solid.

30 hours later 6995074 Anonymous
The Selfish Gene The Extended Phenotype The Blind Watchmaker River Out of Eden Climbing Mount Improbable Unweaving the Rainbow A Devil's Chaplain The Ancestor's Tale The Greatest Show on Earth The Magic of Reality An Appetite for Wonder

33 hours later 6995403 Anonymous
Axiomatic and naive.

34 hours later 6995543 Anonymous
>>6994888 >I need a big book about statistics, Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists - Sheldon Ross Big, thorough, nice to read, visually appealing. Best book on applied stats for non-mathematicians IMHO.

34 hours later 6995563 Anonymous
>>6995074 die

41 hours later 6996442 Anonymous
>>6992633 >sicp noice ever considered onlisp?

43 hours later 6996551 Anonymous
>>6995074 >All pop-sci books Surely this is bait.

44 hours later 6996586 Anonymous (3974773.jpg 318x449 30kB)
Thought this would be relevant, when looking at textbooks I find there is always "international editions" that say they are paperback for considerably cheaper usually <$50 I'm in 2nd year EE and just picked up pic related, I have a lax semester with 19 hours of class. So I picked up pic related to try and stay stimulated. Seems like it should be a good intro.

44 hours later 6996588 Anonymous
>>6996586 Didn't finish my thought. Are international editions bad? Has anyone had experience with them? I assume it will probably vary in quality by publisher

45 hours later 6996661 Anonymous
>>6993596 Were you the same dude posting on /r9k/ about Gene Wolf? Are you the guy who posts on /sci/ frequently about nuclear engineering?

45 hours later 6996663 Anonymous
>>6996661 >Were you the same dude posting on /r9k/ about Gene Wolf? I don't post on /r9k/ >Are you the guy who posts on /sci/ frequently about nuclear engineering? probably

45 hours later 6996668 Anonymous
>>6996663 Your toroidal plasma mechanics is fuggin cool

45 hours later 6996678 Anonymous
>>6996668 https://abmpk.files.wordpress.com/2 014/09/f-140717034619-phpapp01.pdf http://www.nifs.ac.jp/report/NIFS-P ROC-88.pdf http://www.sunist.org/shared%20docu ments/Fusion%20Research%20Course%20 by%20Thomas%20Dolan/Whole%20Documen t%20pdf,%20djvu%20and%20tiff/Fusion %20Research%201%20file%20original%2 0with%20hidden%20text.pdf The first two links are to plasma phys books that I've hear are great for beginners, and the last link is all 3 editions of Dolan's Fusion Research with bookmarks to but takes forever to load

46 hours later 6996728 Anonymous
>>6996678 Regardless of the circumstance that I'm finishing up a physics degree, I will be studying plasma physics on my own time on account of being a complete autist. As an information-hoarding bibliophile I very much appreciate the links, thanks. To anyone else reading this thread, the third book can accessed via the actual sunist website.

46 hours later 6996732 Anonymous
>>6996728 http://www.sunist.org/shared%20docu ments/Fusion%20Research%20Course%20 by%20Thomas%20Dolan/

47 hours later 6996757 Anonymous (52d3e0f42080c9c05033b7ac06f12bf2.jpg 236x354 13kB)
>>6992604 Nonfiction: *Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener - Wiener is just an amazing writer in general and has such a huge, polymath like understanding of the world. Reading this sort of gave me new impressions of old subjects. *Astronomy For Amateurs by Camille Flammarion - More often should poets and artists attempt to bring science to the masses, if this book is anything to go by. *A History Of God by Karen Armstrong - This book attempts to tackle the history and question of why humans are so naturally and predictably superstitious and why we do the apparently illogical things we do. The Character Of Physical Law by Richard Feynman - Sort of like an earlier version of A Brief History Of Time and aimed at a more scientifically literate audience, this book explains as simply as is reasonable many of the most interesting parts of science that laymen don't know are interesting. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie The Art Of War by Sun Tzu All three of these are books full of obvious yet useful advice. Don't tell anyone you read any of them unless you want them to think you are a poser. Fiction: *Faust by Goethe (translated by Walter Arndt) - A dense epic about a scholar who sells his soul to learn more math and science the way anyone should. Arndt's translation is very artistically done and each line is worth paying attention to. I don't read a lot of fiction. I guess Lord of the Rings was pretty good.

48 hours later 6996779 Anonymous
>>6994222 Because dover just reprints the same edition from 50+ years ago. The worst part is that that some companies do the same thing as Dover (Springer, PH, the AMS editorial for example) but are putting insane prices, even if (sometimes) you consider them being hardcover.

51 hours later 6996947 Anonymous
>>6993997 >>point set topology, analysis (Not including integration or measure theory), and operator theory >It sounds like an odd list of things, did you use it for a class or read it on your own? Yes, it is fantastically written, I read it on my own a couple years ago as my first exposure to analysis beyond calculus. It contains the clearest exposition of commutative Gelfand-Naimark theorem that I've seen. Actually everything in the book is fantastically clear, Simmons really put in an effort to write a book for a true beginner. The only negative thing I could point out is that because it doesn't care for integration theory, it's a bit hard to see why the functional analysis he develops is in any way interesting. And he talks about many topics, including hahn-banach, open mapping, uniform boundedness theorems, weak topologies etc.).

52 hours later 6997011 Anonymous
>>6996779 Dover also prints newer books as well. Pinter's Algebra is a great example of a good recent Dover book. They just go out of their way to make everything ridiculously cheap.

58 hours later 6997558 Anonymous
>>6992604 Oxfor very short introductions series are good

61 hours later 6997970 Anonymous
>>6994096 >Reads Nietzsche Nazi.

61 hours later 6997981 Anonymous
>>6994888 >Most stuff by Kafka (that guy was nuts, a lot of folks I know hate his works with a passion) Hate is a strong word, I can understand maybe you don't like his style, but to actually hate his works? Why?

63 hours later 6998095 Anonymous
>>6994495 I have the book. The chapter titles in consecutive order is Mathematical Method The Number System Polynomials Algebraic fractions Exponents and radicals Equations Vectors and Matrices Inequalities Functions and relations Algebraic functions Exponential and Logarithmic functions Trigonometric Functions on Angles Trigonometric funtions of real numbers Analytic geometry Intuitive integration Intuitive differentiation Hypberbolic function Appendix. It's a good textbook. I learned a lot

63 hours later 6998110 Anonymous
[Matloff] The Art of R Programming [Grimmett and Stirzaker] Probability and Random Processes

63 hours later 6998141 Anonymous
>>6997970 Nietzsche wasn't a Nazi, his writings were edited after his death by his relative to conform to her own political ideologies, which were then later picked up by the Nazis as an example of a German philosophy.

63 hours later 6998144 Anonymous
I liked about the first half of "Godel, Escher, Bach", before it got too repetitive for me.

63 hours later 6998174 Anonymous
>>6998144 Ironic.

64 hours later 6998193 Anonymous
>>6994995 >Perspective made easy I thought that was something you were supposed to figure out in middle school, or if you're a grade-a retard take an IED class your sophomore year of high school and learn about point perspectives

65 hours later 6998357 Anonymous (medical_herbalism.png 453x602 453kB)
This is actually incredibly interesting

65 hours later 6998375 Anonymous (5898522335_1655d6e9c7_z.jpg 480x640 216kB)
Daily turboautism reminder

66 hours later 6998424 Anonymous
>>6996588 Exactly, it will vary. But typically it's just printed on cheap paper and paperback, I've never had any problems. I still try to pick up hardbacks for any books that use classic texts, but otherwise they're a really good value.

68 hours later 6998509 Anonymous
>>6998375 Is this some kind of maymay? I see this posted from time to time and I wonder why. I'm in no way a CS guy, and I don't really know what he could cover in all those pages, (I mean it's more of an algorithm book, right?) but I suppose the field is broad enough if you study it. Or is it just plain autistic material?

87 hours later 7000243 Anonymous
>>6994227 also his introduction to quantum mechanics ( even the translation is better than most german physics books)

87 hours later 7000254 Anonymous
>>6998509 Knuth literally created a hypothetical computer with its own unique instruction set just for the book. I can appreciate some parts of TAOCP but there's some parts that are just beyond me. It takes a special kind of mind to work through the whole thing.

87 hours later 7000256 Anonymous
>>6998375 Wouldn't buy any volume but #2. Out of curiosity, does he go over Risch, or symbolic integration in general? It might be in volume 3.

87 hours later 7000258 Anonymous
>>7000254 And I'm a CS graduate, by the way.

87 hours later 7000259 Anonymous (isee.jpg 420x315 35kB)
>>6998144

87 hours later 7000266 Anonymous
>>7000254 >created a hypothetical computer with its own unique instruction set just for the book >>7000258 I don't know what you do anon, but it must not be very hard because that's not an impressive feat. Any book on architecture has one of these, Patterson and Hennessy excepted.

87 hours later 7000274 Anonymous
Lang, "Algebra" Ireland and Rosen, "A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory" Serre, "A Course in Arithmetic" Smith et al., "An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry" Shafarevich, "Basic Algebraic Geometry, Volume 1" Harris, "Algebraic Geometry" Eisenbud and Harris, "The Geometry of Schemes" Szamuely, "Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups"

87 hours later 7000288 Anonymous
>>7000274 good books.

88 hours later 7000377 Anonymous
>>6998095 Thank you anon! It sounds like a good solid intro book. Might be good to complement it with Ian Stewarts Modern Mathematics (different topics but also an introductory book with an emphasis in pure math).

88 hours later 7000382 Anonymous
>>7000266 >>created a hypothetical computer with its own unique instruction set just for the book I'm not that guy but he's right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ar t_of_Computer_Programming#Assembly_ language_in_the_book

88 hours later 7000399 Anonymous
Philosophy : Confessions - Saint Augustine in general as well General Read : Lolita or really anything by the author Geography : Cultural Landscapes - Rubenstein

88 hours later 7000402 Anonymous
>>7000382 I wasn't saying that he was wrong, I was saying that it wasn't an impressive feat.

88 hours later 7000423 Anonymous
>>7000382 For example: Java runs on a hypothetical computer with its own unique instruction set. Years before that, the Pascal language had p-code implementations. The Zork video game was compiled to the Z-machine. Flash (the Macromedia/Adobe product) could be called a virtual machine. You can, right now, buy hardware that executes Java Machine Code natively. There was a time you could get hardware that ran p-code natively. To invent a hypothetical computer is child's play. To get someone to build it is an accomplishment.

89 hours later 7000449 Anonymous (tesla.png 500x311 44kB)
Can you recommend me a text book or text book series that teaches electrical engineering fundamentals in a way that will make me develop an intuitive understanding?

97 hours later 7001006 Anonymous
>>7000449 Electric circuits by alexander and sadiku. Covers the fundementals really well. Only thing it is missing is magnetics. Stay away from nilsson electric circuits, hprrible text

98 hours later 7001082 Anonymous
>>6998509 It's mainly used for reference. If anyone can complete it, they're a genius. Bill Gates actually said that anyone who completes it should personally send him their resumé.

101 hours later 7001256 Anonymous (whaaat.jpg 177x167 11kB)
>>6998509 >Is this some kind of maymay? No, it is not. Spivak was another dude who went fucking mad. http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive -Introduction-Differential-Geometry -Edition/dp/0914098705 The 5 volumes are in total over 2000 pages of hardcore mathematics.

101 hours later 7001296 Anonymous
Is there a math textbook that covers everything from basic operations to calc, kind of like Khan academy's knowledge tree?

102 hours later 7001356 Anonymous
>>7001296 Not a single book, but Gelfand has a series of three small books, "Algebra", "Functions and graphs", and "The method of coordinates". Those are probably adequate preparation for Spivak's "Calculus". For more recommendations, see: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhis hek/chicmath.htm

104 hours later 7001611 Anonymous
>>6994222 Is there a .pdf of this book floating around anywhere?

105 hours later 7001652 Anonymous
>>6994218 Rand is not a must read. Rand has influenced absolutely nothing.

105 hours later 7001669 Anonymous
>>6992604 A must read for chemfags, for entertainment or otherwise, is The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments. A pdf of the original can be easily googled and it's informative, useful, and sort of funny to see what kids were allowed to play with back in the day. Soccer moms today would puke reading it, "Think of the children!" etc etc

109 hours later 7002157 Anonymous (don.gif 140x192 17kB)
I just realized that the same guy who introduced the up-arrow notation is the one who wrote "The Art of Computer Programming". Apart from that he also won every CS award there is. I know what book(s) I'm getting next.

109 hours later 7002161 Anonymous
>>7002157 Knuth also designed and wrote most of the code for TeX, the typesetting system now used for the vast majority of mathematical publishing.

113 hours later 7002520 Anonymous
>>6998509 It's a /g/ and /prog/ maymay that leaks onto /sci/ from time to time. Those books are a comprehensive set of books covering an insane amount of material about programming from an introductory level. It has an overview of a ton of different types of algorithms and is only ever used as a reference. Apparently in /g/ it's a maymay that everyone recommends this book but no one actually reads it. More than that though the book is unfinished. It sill has a bunch of chapters planned and it was started several decades ago. Supposedly as Knuth was writing it he decided that typesetting at the time was complete shit so he decided to put the book on hold and develop TeX so that he could typeset it himself, properly. He is crazy old now and it's very unlikely the book will ever get finished. LaTeX is a bunch of libraries and stuff built on top of TeX and has now become the standard for mathematical writing. Knuth is also known for a bunch of other crazy shit.

128 hours later 7003695 Anonymous
>>7001356 Can a layman actually finish these three books and understand spivak's calculus?

129 hours later 7003781 Anonymous
>>7003695 Gelfand's three books are very readable and meant to be used by students. As for whether they're adequate preparation for calculus... I'm not sure. Maybe it'd be good to also learn more of the basics of logic, sets, and proofs first (using a book like Velleman's "How to Prove It").

129 hours later 7003813 Anonymous
Let's see. I would probably go with: Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics, Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid, and Quantum Statistical Mechanics: Green's Function Methods in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Problems Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics is pretty good too.

144 hours later 7005161 Anonymous
>>7003695 I agree with this guy >>7003781 about logic, sets, and Velleman's How to Prove It (basically an intro text to formal mathematics). I'd also suggest reading through an easy introductory text on naive set theory (Halmos comes to mind). As far as all the general math stuff, just read through some of those small cliffsnotes review books on algebra and calculus. Spivak's Calculus is weird, it's more rigorous than a typical calculus book but not quite as rigorous as a typical analysis book (personally I feel like only pretentious people tout it). Anyway, a layman would probably benefit far more from reading Keisler's books on infinitesimal calculus than by reading any other calculus or analysis text. https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/ calc.html and for some more rigorous background https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/ foundations.html They're distributed freely so you can skim the content to see if it's at a level you're comfortable with.

147 hours later 7005375 Anonymous
>>7005161 >Spivak's Calculus is weird, it's more rigorous than a typical calculus book but not quite as rigorous as a typical analysis book This. I never understood why anyone would read Spivak's Calculus over Baby Rudin.

155 hours later 7006180 Anonymous
>>6992604 One book I haven't been able to find in years is Electromagnetism by Grant and Phillips. I recall it being good, but that's about it.

155 hours later 7006211 Anonymous
>>7001652 So? Does that prove something to you? If people don't agree with something then it must be wrong? Don't you know any logic? Read her arguments, and if you can refute them you can hold your opinion, if not you are acting on your emotion and because of that you are probably wrong.

171 hours later 7007287 Anonymous
A few of my favourites, in no particular order: Munkres, Topology Hatcher, Algebraic Topology Williams, Probability with Martingales Kreyszig, Introductory to Functional Analysis with Applications Roman, Advanced Linear Algebra Carol, Spacetime and Geometry Hawking and Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time Mehta - Random Matrices Chandrasekhar - Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability Terry Tao's Blog David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest Seiobo There Below - László Krasznahorkai Godel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter If someone could recommend a book on C*-algebras I would be very appreciative.

182 hours later 7008463 Anonymous
>>7007287 >Terry Tao's Blog How does he produce so much content?! He's constantly publishing gigantic research papers and running a huge blog full of content and doing all sorts of other math shit all over the internet (like stackexchange). I'm calling it, Terry Tao is a fucking Modern Bourbaki!!

188 hours later 7008976 Anonymous (1402788662961.jpg 604x453 45kB)
>>7008463 protip: he doesnt masturbate and his wife took care of everything in his family no fap is legit guys

188 hours later 7008982 Anonymous
>>6996551 He's obviously a troll, but there is legitimate value in all of Dawkins' books. Particularly The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, and The Extended Phenotype

188 hours later 7008986 Anonymous
Anyone know any good books on game theory with a focus on evolutionary game theory?

188 hours later 7009018 Anonymous
>>7008986 NVM, I actually just found some recommendations that a prof recommended to me written on one of my old notebooks. If anyone is interested they are: Strategies of Conflict by Thomas Schelling Game Theory- A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton Davis

188 hours later 7009025 Anonymous
Can someone recommend a Complex Analysis book?

189 hours later 7009039 Anonymous
I was at the book store today and noticed A Brief History Of Time. Is it something that an average dude could pick up, read, and generally understand? I don't have any real background in physics, astronomy, or anything like beyond gradeschool classes. Not that it's something I've never understood before, I just plain haven't learned it or researched it.

190 hours later 7009079 Anonymous
>>6994886 alo srbine!

197 hours later 7009337 Anonymous
>>7009039 No. It's a very hard book and only for PhD scientists. Jk, every retard can understand it.

197 hours later 7009366 Anonymous
>>7009025 I liked Brown and Churchill. No fluff.

197 hours later 7009379 Anonymous
>>7009025 Complex Variables and Applications by James Ward Brown and Ruel V Churchill. Expensive as fuck, but a surprisingly excellent book.

197 hours later 7009402 Anonymous
>>7009018 >Game Theory- A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton Davis >A Nontechnical Introduction >on /sci/ get out The only book anyone should ever read about game theory is von Neumann and Morgenstern, everything else is a waste of time.

199 hours later 7009651 Anonymous
Physics: 1. Feynman's Lectures (Still the best possible book for an introduction, since everything is done from scratch. Just read them). 2. Dirac's Principles of QM (Extremely good introduction by one of the masters, 10/10). 3. Landay & Lifshitz (If you can, read all of them, but if you can only read a few, choose statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, those are the best books on those subjects. Russian rigour). 4. Schutz' first course in GR (Brilliant introduction to relativity, you can pick this book up without knowing SR either, the first couple of chapter provide a nice intro. I read it as a high school student, without that much trouble). Mathematics: 1. Cohen's Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis (by far the best book on the subject). 2. Munkres' Topology (Can be read by a high schooler, great intro to point set topology), 3. generatingfunctionology or however the fuck it's spelled (free, pretty short and fun). These are all low-level, because you guys are dumb.

200 hours later 7009728 Anonymous
>>7009402 Informal books are good as supplementary books anon. Looking at examples and building intuition will often highlight details you may have missed that will inform your theorem finding process. That said, I like The Compleat Strategyst for game theory. It's intuitive and isn't about boring ass economics.

201 hours later 7009797 Anonymous
>>6993997 >>A Brief History of Time >It's a nice pop-science book, but I don't know that I would recommend it to people actually interested in science. Sorry, I got the name of the book I was reading wrong. Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time-- from sundials to atomic clocks / Jo Ellen Barnett.

226 hours later 7011736 Anonymous
buMp

245 hours later 7013083 Anonymous
>>6995074 >no The Making of a Scientist pleb

245 hours later 7013089 Anonymous
>>7013083 n-nevermind >mfw i remember books by their second title good list

246 hours later 7013096 Anonymous
Electricity and Magnetism W. N. Cottingham, D. A. Greenwood .... gave the best university-level introduction to electromagnetism that I have read. Not poetic or beautiful, just straightforward and simple.

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>>6993924 >Guns, Germs and Steel and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond are good for understanding human history and evolution. Toplel Try The 10,000 Year Explosion, Non-Zero or A Troublesome Inheritance for an actual understanding of human history.

246 hours later 7013185 Anonymous
>>6993924 Jared Diamond is retarded. This isn't my opinion. This is the opinion of my friend in a Doctoral anthropology program.

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