Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by ghosthamlet » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

gabriel wrote: post #10

Lisp in Small Pieces: https://pages.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html An excellent and very fun read about compilation, interpretation, and programming semantics. I don’t think you already have to know LISP, although there isn’t an introduction, but if you know any programming it would be enough to pick up the programs that are used as examples. Source code from the book is available and you will end up progra…

There is: Clojure in Small Pieces，http://daly.axiom-developer.org/clojure.pdf

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by achompas » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 5:56 AM UTC

hnarayanan wrote: post #11

Numerical Linear Algebra by Trefethen and Bau.

I loved working through this years ago. Clear and succinct.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by Hockenbrizzle » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 6:13 AM UTC

matt_the_bass wrote: post #29

The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill It covers nearly all aspects of electronics both theory and practice. It’s still relevant after all these years.

I didn't learn electronics with this book, but I really wish I did. I used it to give tutorials for an undergraduate electronics course for physics students and it was immensely useful and well organized.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by Hockenbrizzle » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 6:29 AM UTC

For a textbook where the author does a brilliant job of introducing a complex topic:

Spacetime and Geometry an Introduction to General Relativity by Sean Carroll.

Also the textbooks by David Griffiths and Gill Strang mentioned in other comments.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by lodi » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 6:57 AM UTC

Type-Driven Development with Idris

https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by cozzyd » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 6:58 AM UTC

Sakurai Quantum Mechanics

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by arbales » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 7:20 AM UTC

The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by jpamata » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 9:12 AM UTC

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science [0]

A hands on introduction to both Python and Linear Algebra using real world cases (ex. you are given a high res image, make a low res version to put on your website so that it could load more quickly).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by vmarshall23 » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:14 AM UTC

Well, for nerd books, "Modern Operating Systems" by Andrew Andrew Tanenbaum. It was until years later that I realized just how much I had learned from that book, and the consolidated notes from the Usenet flame war between him and Linus Torvalds.

There's just so much "how does all this shit actually work" in there ....

Re: Ask HN: What's the best textbook you've read?

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Post by stealthcat » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:34 AM UTC

bobosha wrote: post #31

AI - A modern approach by Russell & Norvig. http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

How to use this book? My machine learning lab have few copies but nobody seems to be using it.