Stuff to Read

by Lord Omlette.
Created 2003-07-30 726 BMT.
Updated 2010-08-09 194 BMT.

blendernut: holy crap. this ones 49 pages
blendernut: what are we? reading machines

godmop: it scares me when i'm only skimming and i realize that i'm only 30 pages in

In No Particular Order

From Calculus to Chaos don't remember when I started
Div, Grad, Curl and All That don't remember when I started
Metamagical Themas don't remember when I started, stalled
The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming started 2007-02-15, very stalled
Beyond Fear own
In the Shadow of No Towers Hoboken Public Library
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time own
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge Hoboken Public Library
The Atrocity Archives
The Way of the Moving Horse (2) own
The Dragon Style (3)
Battle Strategies (4)
The Palace of Memory (5)
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
Mathematical Snapshots by H. Steinhaus @ S. C. Williams Library
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Visualizing Quaternions by Andrew Hanson own
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling by Neil Gershenfeld A complete compendium of problem solutions is included. own
short stories of Jorge Luis Borges recommended by IQpierce, "Labyrinths : selected stories & other writings" @ S.C. Williams Library
AI Game Programming Wisdom 2
Light and Color in the Outdoors
Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision - recommended by Dr. Shah. own
How to Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel H. Wilson
Advanced Statistics from an Elementary Point of View
Statistical Pattern Recognition strongly recommended by Doc Rhom. own
Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife
Steven Levy's Crypto
Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr Graphic Novel
Statistics Hacks own
The Secret Life of Numbers
Geometry and its Applications by Walter Meyer
Mathematical Conversation Starters
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics @ S.C. Williams Library
Understanding Analysis
Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert @ S.C. Williams Library
Applied Differential Geometry by William L. Burke
Andrew Glassner's Notebook: Recreational Computer Graphics part 1
Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook: Further Recreations in Computer Graphics part 2?
Morphs, Mallards, & Montages: Computer-aided Imagination by Andrew Glassner part 3?
Ordinary Differential Equations by Tenenbaum and Pollard
Poor Man's Explanation of Kalman Filtering: Or How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love Matrix Inversion by Plessis
The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan Livingston Public Library
Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics own
Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, Second Edition
Visual Complex Analysis own
Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion @ S.C. Williams Library, needs knowledge of differential equations n game theory
Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena recommended by Jeff Atwood
Little Schemer
Modern Applied Statistics with S, 4th ed
Einstein on Race and Racism Englewood Public Library
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal
Four Laws That Drive the Universe own
Halting State by Charlie Stross many libraries
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt many libraries
Thinking About Gödel and Turing - Essays on Complexity, 1970 - 2007 by Gregory J Chaitin
The Unknowable by Gregory J Chaitin Prequel to "The Limits of Mathematics"
Basic Concepts of Mathematics by Elias Zakon own
Brave New War
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by Elias Zakon own
Mindstorms - Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas Union City Public Library (which one?)
Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics probably not a good idea before reading Nearing's Mathematical Tools for Physics
Programming Collective Intelligence - Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications own
Gotcha Capitalism Hoboken Public Library
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Hoboken Public Library
Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior by Abraham and Shaw
The Commission by Philip Shenon Hoboken Public Library
Mathematical Writing by Knuth, Larrabee and Roberts own
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis @ S.C. Williams Library
Intuition by Allegra Goodman Hoboken Public Library
Final Theory by Mark Alpert
Beyond the Third Dimension by Banchoff @ S.C. Williams Library
Mistake-Proofing: Designing Errors Out
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Jim Blinn has 3 books:
1. Notation, Notation, Notation (2002) own
2. A Trip Down The Graphics Pipeline
3. Dirty Pixels
Gotta read them in order and identify each time a matrix inversion is successfully used.
The Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives Hoboken Public Library
Intel Threading Building Blocks own
Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing Hoboken Public Library
Cosmic Anger: The first Muslim Nobel scientist by Fraser
The Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics by Susskind
Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets by Siegel Hoboken Public Library
Socrates and the three little pigs. Union City Public Library branch E ANN
The colossal book of mathematics : classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics Union City Public Library both REF 793.7 GAR
Wheels, life, and other mathematical amusements Union City Public Library Main 793.74 GAR
Secession by Naylor
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany
HCI Remixed
Back of the Napkin
When Least Is Best own
Wizzywig
Hungry Scientist Handbook
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by Morrow
We Think, Therefore We Are
Spare Parts: A Backroom Tour of the Body Bazaar tentative title
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Longitude by Dava Sobel (preferably 2005 edition?)
The All New Square Foot Gardening - But read the comments before you go looking for it.
Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Elements of Programming by Stepanov and McJones strongly recommended on Bjarne Stroustrup
Wiring up the Big Brother Machine ... and Fighting It by Mark Klein
Excursions in Modern Mathematics, 6th Edition Don't forget the student resource guide!
Physics for Entertainment
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
The Super-Organism
GCHQ: The uncensored story of Britain's most secret intelligence agency by Richard Aldrich
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Possibly In Order

Sphereland: A Fantasy about Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe by Dionys Burger (1965) own
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney (1984)
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart (2000) North Bergen Public Library
Spaceland, by Rudy Rucker (2002) North Bergen Public Library
The Shape of Space by Jeffrey R. Weeks. own

Papers

MathPad²: A System for the Creation and Exploration of Mathematical Sketches
Is bottom-up attention useful for object recognition?
Image Registraton - A Survey (2003)
Efficiently Combining Positions and Normals for Precise 3D Geometry
A Photon Accurate Model of the Human Eye
A Machine Vision Based Surveillance System for California Roads PATH project MOU-83 Final Report
Geometric Context from a Single Image by Hoiem, Efros and Hebert
Putting Objects in Perspective by Hoiem, Efros and Hebert
The Essence of Programming Languages by Niklaus Wirth in Modular Programming Languages (QA76.6 .J6578 2003 in SC Williams Library)

Intarweb

Finished

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers - 2003-04-03
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick - 2004-08-31
The Cg Tutorial - 2004-09-09
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte - 2004-09-16
Ignited Minds by APJ Abdul Kalam - 2004-09-20
~~The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible~~
The Annotated Flatland. Edwin A. Abbott, Ian Stewart, 2002 - 2004-12-10
~~Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia~~
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte - 2005-01-14
An Episode of Flatland, by Charles Howard Hinton (1907) - 2005-04-26
The Green and Gray by Timothy Zahn - 2005-05-01
Palestine by Joe Sacco - 2005-05-12
Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (1) by Janice Kim - 2005-05-13
I Was a Teenage Billionaire Psychopath by Jeffrey J. Rowland - 2005-06-16
Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi - 2005-07-26
Appendix Projective Geometry for Machine Vision - 2005-12-24
Mind Hacks - 2006-01-03
Monster Island - 2006-01-12
Gödel, Escher, Bach - 2006-01-18
Concepts of Modern Mathematics (review) - 2006-01-22
Who Is Fourier? : A Mathematical Adventure - 2006-01-31
Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus by Spivak - 2006-02-08
~~Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks~~ - surprisingly boring ;_;
Monster Nation - 2006-08-01
Monster Planet - 2006-08-02 wow my eyes hurt
13 Bullets - 2006-08-03 Ending is sicker than anything he's done before. x_x
Stealing the Network - How to Own the Box 2006-09-03
Stealing the Network - How to Own a Continent 2006-09-05
Stealing the Network - How to Own an Identity 2006-10-26
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline 2006-11-11
Frostbite 2006-12-20
Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master 2006-12-28
John Dies at the End 2007-02-10
The Temple of X'al'naa''thuthuthu 2007-02-11
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky 2007-03-11
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter 2007-03-19
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 2007-07-11
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman 2007-08-17
Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll 2007-10-04
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 2007-12-12
Plague Zone by David Wellington 2008-02-02
Code Reading by Spinellis 2008-03-12
Incognegro by Mat Johnson n Warren Pleece 2008-03-19
Persepolis 2 2008-04-06
Trigonometric Delights 2008-04-07
99 Coffins by David Wellington 2008-04-13
M by Jon J Muth 2008-05-10
World War Z 2008-06-05
Modern C++ Design 2008-07-09
The Annotated Turing by Petzold 2008-07-22
The Strange Case of Mrs. Hudson's Cat by Colin Bruce 2008-08-28
Roger's Version by John Updike 2008-09-03
How to Win Friends and Influence People 2008-09-15
Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 2008-10-04
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 2008-10-27
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Michelle Feynman 2008-11-07
Interpreter of Maladies 2008-11-13
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry 2008-11-30
Expanded Universe by Robert A. Heinlein 2008-12-01
Vampire Zero 2008-12-25
Daemon 2009-02-08
An Introduction to Dynamic Systems and Mathematical Modelling 2009-03-05
I Will Teach You To Be Rich 2009-04-27
Chances Are... Adventures in Probability 2009-06-01
Advice to Rocket Scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers 2009-07-11
23 Hours 2009-07-21
Crazy As Me by Lim Yohwan 2009-08-12
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 2009-09-18
Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel 2009-10-15
Navigation with Alice 2009-10-17
The 50th Law 2009-10-20
30 Stories in 30 Days 2009-10-24
The Strain 2009-12-15
Freedom^TM 2010-01-16
Head First Statistics 2010-04-18
Head First Excel 2010-05-09
Head First Data Analysis 2010-06-25
Midnight's Children 2010-06-28

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-added 2003-09-30