books/wanted-books
Wanted Books
These are some books i'd love to own a copy of or at least read through carefully.
Technical
- 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
- 21st Century C by Ben Klemens
Math
(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.
Computer Security
- Beautiful Security by Andy Oram and John Viega
- Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ by John Viega and Matt Messier
Novels
- 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
- Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
- Big Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo Yan
- Journey to the West
- Dream of the Red Chamber
Non-Fiction
- 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)
- The Gift by Marcell M (?)
Other
- 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
- Knuth's Surreal Numbers