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*36 Lectures in Biology
*[https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lectures-Biology-Salvador-Edward/dp/0262120682 36 Lectures in Biology] by S. E. Luria
*Not Even Wrong
*[https://www.amazon.com/Not-Even-Wrong-Failure-Physical/dp/0465092764 Not Even Wrong] by Peter Woit
*Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the XXXXs - How Good are the Numbers?
*[https://www.amazon.com/Projecting-science-engineering-personnel-requirements/dp/0160400090 Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers?]
*Perfumes
*[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QF3RXPG Perfumes] by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
*The Beat of a Different Drum
*[https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Different-Drum-Science-Richard/dp/0198539487 The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman] by Jagdish Mehra
*The Geometric Universe
*[https://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Universe-Science-Geometry-Penrose/dp/0198500599 The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose] by S. A. Huggett (Editor), L. J. Mason (Editor), K. P. Tod (Editor), S. T. Tsou (Editor), N. M. J. Woodhouse (Editor)
*QED and the Men Who Made It
*[https://www.amazon.com/QED-Men-Made-Silvan-Schweber/dp/0691036853 QED and the Men Who Made It] by Silvan S. Schweber
*Gravitation
*Gravitation
*Encyclopedia of Cosmology
*Encyclopedia of Cosmology
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*Ringside
*Ringside
*Out of My Later Years
*Out of My Later Years


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Revision as of 06:50, 24 February 2020

Mathematics

From Eric's bookshelves

additional books that changed Eric's life:

1st (Top) Shelf:

  • Turkish Phrase Book
  • Russian Course
  • The Loom of Language by Bodmer and Hogben
  • Spoken and Written Hindi by Fairbanks and Misra
  • Teach Yourself Hindi
  • A Guide to Latex by Kopka and Daly
  • Turkish Grammar
  • Everyday Indonesian
  • Colloquial Turkish
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  • Hindi & Urdu
  • Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
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  • Basic Algebra I
  • The Ideas of Particle Physics
  • Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
  • Introduction to ? Field Theory ?
  • Supermanifolds: Second Edition
  • General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
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  • Differential Topology
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  • Elements of the Theory of Computation
  • Elements of Information Theory
  • A History of Economic Theory
  • Introductory Economics
  • Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
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  • Accounting for Tastes
  • More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
  • The General Theory
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2nd Shelf:

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  • Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • Modern Elementary Particle Physics
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  • Introduction to Superstrings
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  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V
  • Principles of Quantum Mechanics
  • The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II
  • An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory
  • Calculus on Manifolds
  • Shelter Island II
  • Topology and Analysis
  • Representations of Compact Lie Groups
  • Lie Algebras in Particle Physics
  • Grand Unified Theories
  • Quantum Field Theory and Topology
  • Essential Relativity
  • Modern Geometry I
  • Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
  • Analysis, Manifolds and Physics
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  • Concepts of Particle Physics
  • General Relativity for Mathematicians


3rd Shelf:

4th Shelf:

  • Einstein's Dream
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  • Makam
  • Save the Cat!
  • The Theoretical Minimum
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • The Diary of Anais Nin
  • Symmetry
  • 100 Great Operas
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  • Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
  • Eat the Rich
  • The Diary of Anais Nin (Another double - different edition)
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  • The Annotated Alice
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  • Bloodlands
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  • I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious"
  • Give War a Chance
  • Age and Guile
  • Necessary Illusions
  • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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  • Daemon
  • Father to Son
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