Please feel free to recommend different books that assume different levels of background knowledge. Post a separate comment to recommend books in each different field. Thanks!
What book(s) is/are the best introduction to your field for non-specialists?
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Re: What book(s) is/are the best introduction to your field for non-specialists?
#2Previously, elsewhere:
http://ask.metafilter.com/71101/What-single-book-is-the-best...
Re: What book(s) is/are the best introduction to your field for non-specialists?
#3Computer Science: SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-c...)
Artificial Intelligence: AIMA (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/)