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
TopicProgramming - TopicLibraries - TopicScience - TopicThinking
(correlates: PhysicsEnvy, IntellectualProductPlacement, BookCoverJudgment, ...)
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