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Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis
Halmos, Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces
Billingsley, Probability and Measure
Kelley, General Topology
Lang, Undergraduate Algebra
Simmons, Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis
Parthasarathy, Probability Measures on Metric Spaces
Whinston, Green and Mas-Colell, Microeconomic Theory
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are there standard or near standard books about new topics in Logic Programming ?
I don't know, but there's a recommendation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869042
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Not laughing at the Buddhism books. That's actually a great suggestion!
Thanks. When I tell people I practice Buddhism they make some smart remark about being a monk.
by Donald G. Reinertsen
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-G...
Gödel Escher Bach, or GEB. It's one of the most informative books I've ever read with a really valuable perspective to view information through. I find myself applying it more frequently the more recently I've re-read it.
Motion seconded. I read it first when I was barely ten, and even though I barely understood a word of it, I made a vow to myself to keep coming back to it until I did. I've been coming back to it constantly ever since, and I think I finally get it. I think.
Mind you, I have that with particular novels & movies I return to, too.
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I hate that the default attitude of our society about people with religious beliefs necessitates your disclaimer.
What attitude can you expect from rationalists towards those who decide to believe in claims without requiring evidence or justification? The moral high ground which you seem to think exists for you, does not.
If you're using the term in a more general sense, then social science provides evidence for the efficacy of various Buddhist practices (e.g. mindfulness). I know the state of affairs in the social sciences are suboptimal (e.g. the replication crisis) but it's the body of knowledge we have to work with now.
For many years "SQL for Smarties" by Joe Celko was on the desk along with whatever specific technical reference i happened to need at the time. There are no physical books now on the desk but the table of contents of some of the older books remind me of what to google often enough
A few immediately come to mind: - Garner's Modern American Usage - The Hardware Hacker (I am a huge fan of bunnie) - The Art of Electronics (Horowitz and Hill) I don't really have "reference" books on my desk. Most rotate out quite frequently depending on what I'm researching and writing about. These can range from Raizman's History of Modern Design to Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic . In addition I make plenty use of…
Interesting to see 2 books on electronics. May I ask the nature of your work?
So far my most proud accomplishment is designing a binary adder in EAGLE and getting the PCB manufactured. I put all the files up on GitHub in the spirit of open hardware, too: