Well written books can serve as eye openers and warp your understanding of a topic when read at the correct time in your life.
Can you name a few books of that type that really were of such high value in your field of work or study?
Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
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#2Physics: Feynman's lectures on physics.
Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis.
Software engineering: The Mythical Man-Month.
Computer science: Knuth's TAOCP.
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#3# Pure Mathematics / Geometry
- Harshorne - Algebraic Geometry
- Bott, Tu - Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
- Milnor, Stasheff - Characteristic Classes
- Milnor - Morse Theory
- Serre - Linear Representations of Finite Groups
- Fulton - Intersection Theory
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#4Designing Data Intensive Applications.
Operating Systems in Three Easy Pieces.
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#5Physics: Feynman's lectures on physics. Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis. Software engineering: The Mythical Man-Month. Computer science: Knuth's TAOCP.
TAOCP, you have worked through the whole thing? At what point in life?
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#6Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy the creator of MIPS and David Patterson the creator of Berkeley RISC (later SPARC)
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens
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#8The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll. In my humble opinion, it should be a foundational text to read for all technology students.
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#9Physics: Feynman's lectures on physics. Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis. Software engineering: The Mythical Man-Month. Computer science: Knuth's TAOCP.
Six Easy Pieces was one of my favorite books as a kid.
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#10Physics: Feynman's lectures on physics. Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis. Software engineering: The Mythical Man-Month. Computer science: Knuth's TAOCP.
Worth noting: TAOCP volume 4B is now shipping. Was just charged for my copy of the complete set.
https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-computer-programming-v...