Erics Most Important Set of Books

Mathematics

• Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
• Einstein Manifolds by Besse
• Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
• Road to Reality by Penrose
• Gravitation, Gauge Theories And Differential Geometry Eguchi, Gilkey, and Hansen 1980
• Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak
• Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators by Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, and Nicole Berline
• Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott
• Morse Theory / Characteristic Classes by Milnor
• Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians by Anthony Sudbery

Biology

• Double Helix by James D. Watson

History of Science

• Science Since Babylon by Derek de Solla Price

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 by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
• 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 by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
• Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas
• A History of Economic Theory
• Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
• Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
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• Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
• More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
• The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
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2nd Shelf:

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• Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
• Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
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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 by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V
• Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Hawkins, Ellis, et al.
• 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:

• 36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
• Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
• Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers?
• Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
• The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra
• 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 by Silvan S. Schweber
• Gravitation
• Encyclopedia of Cosmology
• Encyclopedia of Physics
• Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in General Space-Time
• Advanced Scientific Computation
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• The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
• The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
• Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
• A Literary Companion to Science
• The True Believer
• The Denial of Death
• The Jazz of Physics (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
• Ringside
• Out of My Later Years

4th (Bottom) 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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