Knuth.
With proofs or without proofs? :D
Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
11–20 of 58 posts
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#12I somehow feel everyone pretends to have read “Thinking fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman, but whenever I dig deep, most of the time I get to know they just bought the book but watched a video summary (it’s quite a biggie)
I read that it’s the most started and not finished kindle book ever.
It’s great though and definitely worth reading.
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#13Natenberg
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#14The Elements of Statistical Learning
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please add double line breaks between each point or question as your comment just renders as a big block of text.
In Computers? The Mythical Man Month Fred Brooks In Management? Turn the Ship Around David Marquet In literature? Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad In Philosophy? The Republic Plato In Religion? The Confessions St. Augustine In Mathematics? The Elements Euclid In History? Parallel lives Plutarch In Physics? Principia Isaac Newton
I'm skeptical about the maths and physics ones.
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#16Anything by John Dewey or A
Lev Vygotsky. (Field: education.)
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#17Accelerate - this book has become an excuse for managers to spend outrageous money implementing metrics like lead time and deployment frequency to measure teams, whereas the book actually advises something very different.
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please add double line breaks between each point or question as your comment just renders as a big block of text.
In Computers? The Mythical Man Month Fred Brooks In Management? Turn the Ship Around David Marquet In literature? Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad In Philosophy? The Republic Plato In Religion? The Confessions St. Augustine In Mathematics? The Elements Euclid In History? Parallel lives Plutarch In Physics? Principia Isaac Newton
Not my fields, but
- English Law: Treitel on The Law of Contract
- Economics: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#19In Computers? The Mythical Man Month Fred Brooks In Mnaagement? Turn the Ship Around David Marquet In literature? Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad In Philosophy? The Republic Plato In Religion? The Confessions St. Augustine In Mathematics? The Elements Euclid In History? Parallel lives Plutarch In Physics? Principia Isaac Newton
[flagged]
Re: Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
#20CustomerCentric Selling. Not clear to me if it actually helps but it was excitedly recommended to me.
Anyone else!