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Re: Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?

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Post by m00n »

defrost wrote: post #13

Map Projections: A Reference Manual - John P. Snyder Gravitation - Misner, Wheeler, Thorne Already mentioned: (it's a goody) Linear Representations of Finite Groups - Serre

A course in Arithmetic by Serre is for me THE book to get into Number Theory

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Post by ayushm2003 »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #8

The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll. In my humble opinion, it should be a foundational text to read for all technology students.

Loved the book! Was surprised to see him on ("Numberphile videos")[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...], his excitement is still so amazing to watch.

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Post by docdocgoose »

Principles of Neural Science by Kandel et al

Molecular Biology of The Cell by Alberts et al

Janeway’s Immunobiology

Robbin’s Pathologic Basis of Disease

All of these books are extraordinary in their sheer ability to organize thousands of small details into thematic narratives of how life operates.

They also reveal how hard we humans try to narrate life into tidy, comprehensible themes.

These books are all of an era (2005-2015), and there are probably newer ones. That said, they are a great guide for non biologists into how experts think things work.

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Post by weinzierl »

Brigham's book on the Fast Fourier Transform was an eye opener for me. Not so much because of the "Fast" part (which is super interesting and useful too) but it was the introduction I needed to make integral transforms and convolution click. And that helped tremendously to connect a whole bunch of other dots.

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Post by Stamp01 »

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce Tate

Seriously, check out this book. It's delightful! It'll level you up as a software developer. Also, I've heard it heavily influenced José Valim to create Elixir.

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