BooksToConsider

The following are on my starter list, important in diverse ways:

Abelson, Harold; Sussman, Gerald & Julie. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation
Colinvaux, Paul. Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene
Dennett, Daniel. Consciousness Explained
Dennett, Daniel. Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson
Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas. Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Melzak, Z. A. Bypasses
Melzak, Z. A. Companion to Concrete Mathematics
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography
Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind
Nozick, Robert. The Examined Life
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Vernor Vinge. True Names

Other important books:

Gravitation by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Wheeler
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
The Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (!)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Numerical Recipes by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery
Simply Scheme by Matthew Wright and Brian Harvey
Numerical Methods that Work by Forman Acton
Mathematical Methods of Physics by Jon Mathews & Robert Walker

Friday, April 16, 1999 at 06:27:39 (EDT) = 1999-04-16