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Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by evanb »

Feynman, Leighton, and Sands - The Feynman Lectures: I always look here for a good intuitive explanation.

A. Zee - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell: this is so approachable and in the path integral formulation of QFT. Anyone who points you towards Peskin and Schroeder wants you to suffer.

Gattringer and Lang - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice: essential reading for anyone learning lattice QCD.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by ratsimihah »

cm2187 wrote: post #107
ratsimihah wrote: post #103

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I'm seeing the 10th edition for £230 and the eight edition for cheaper. Would you be able to tell whether investing in the newer edition is worth?

Are you talking about the Sadr book? I am not aware that there are multiple editions. The kindle version is $70/£55 on amazon.

Sorry, wrong reply! I was referring to Options, Futures and Other Derivatives.

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Post by halirutan »

copperx wrote: post #47
randcraw wrote: post #8

Image Processing: "Digital Image Processing", Gonzalez and Woods. Comprehensive coverage of principles, well written, practical w/ useful examples yet well grounded in signal processing and engineering principles. Complemented nicely by a version of the book rich in examples solved in MATLAB (co-author Steve Eddins).

By chance, do you know a good book for audio signal processing?

For signals (as opposed to images), you should have a look at "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard G. Lyons (ISBN-13: 978-0131089891). I enjoyed this very much and if you grasped the contents from it, you should be able to understand audio-specific books easily.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by brox »

bugmen0t wrote: post #109

In Web Security: - The Tangled Web ( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/ ) You can look at the Web Application Hacker's Handbook or the Browser Hacker's Handbook, if you want. But TTW tops them all.

Would like to hear general information security recommendations as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by sbuk »

henryoz wrote: post #120
btschaegg wrote: post #105

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I'm currently reading Don Norman's book and I'd like to add that to me it seems to be a very worthwhile read for everyone who designs things that are used by humans. And by that, I explicitly also mean GUIs, APIs, IDEs, programming languages & DSLs... The book is very focused on what makes good design good , and only provides examples as illustrations. It's really more about applied psychology than design per se (in…

I couldn't agree more re: Norman's book. I wish it had been recommended to me as a linguistics undergrad. He provides such a clear explanation as to how design is a way of solving communication problems over making things look good. I also run into "Norman doors" at least once a week and always smile when I remember the term.

It's one of the principles that has stuck with me throughout my professional life; design is solving problems, not solving aesthetics.
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