Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

Highly recommend this course (it's free) if you're interested in machine/deep learning as a "regular" programmer. My knowledge of linear algebra and calculus is pretty elementary, but I was able to follow with it easily and the way it developed took me from building simple, straightforward CV models to writing a lot of Pytorch utilities from scratch.

If nothing else it will deepen your understanding of modern deep learning considerably, while giving you practical skills in the field

The Science of Discworld series.

It isn't a group of heady physics textbooks, but they do seem to unlock interest and understanding in the fields they address for a layperson. Probably precisely because they embrace that quite a lot of explanations only hold within particular models.

That sounds amazing. I'll check it out. Does anybody if there are similar books for the original languages of the bible?(Hebrew and Koiné Greek mainly). Of course there is the added burden of different writing systems. But maybe someone came up with a clever solution for that too :)

[Accounting && Finance/Investing]

Not my current job, but understanding the basics of accounting was related to technical jobs I previously held (in ERP) and finance/investing is useful in general.

I'd highly recommend "The Accounting Game" for anyone that quickly wants to understand accounting basics (U.S. accounting) and how everything fits together. It basically walks you through being a child with a lemonade stand and doing the accounting for it. Similarly if you want a quick overview of some of the multiples and what they mean for finance/investing, I'd recommend "Visual Finance".

The most fascinating book that I've read in the accounting/finance domain is "Financial Shenanigans" which outline different ways to manipulate financial statements. It would be my recommended goto book for the field of financial fraud.

For personal investing, my goto is "Quantitative Value" which methodically walks through different value investment strategies and backtesting them. I think the overall recommendation of buying companies that have low acquisition costs relative to their operational profits is good and it's how I screen stuff I buy, but the general mindset and systematic approach is what makes this book very valuable. This is not a book that will "attract anyone" but I'm pretty sure it's the one investment book I'd recommend to an analytical/scientific kind of person which I'd say is what the HN crowd is for the most part.

"Fooled by Randomness" by N N Taleb for a real life overview of markets and decision making under uncertainty.

And to a lesser extent "The Black Swan"

He's not the most straightforward authors to read on these topics but his self awareness is refreshing compared to some of the charlatans in the industry (I'm thinking of a large tech oriented ETF here...)