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==General==
==General==
* [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-single-most-useful-book-you-have-ever-read What is the single most useful book you have ever read?]
* [https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-single-most-useful-book-you-have-ever-read What is the single most useful book you have ever read?]
* Quiet: The power of Introvert in a world that cant stop talking - Multiple Recommendations...
** Quiet: The power of Introvert in a world that cant stop talking - Multiple Recommendations...
* Mini Habits, by Stephen Guise - It does away with the notion that one requires great motivation or super will power to change habits and life.
** Mini Habits, by Stephen Guise - It does away with the notion that one requires great motivation or super will power to change habits and life.


===[https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books#All Bill Gates]===
===[https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books#All Bill Gates]===
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=Books=
=Books=
[http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/ The Comments Section]


==General Self Improvement==
==General Self Improvement==
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* Visual Group Theory
* Visual Group Theory
* C. Pinter Group Theory
* C. Pinter Group Theory
* Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Multiple (x2) recommendations
* Calculus - Michael Spivak - Multiple recommendations
* What is Mathematics? - Multiple recommendations
* Algebra by Israel M. Gelfand - Multiple recommendations
* Mathematics for the Million - A few stack overflow recommendations
* The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Kind of huge, maybe just the interesting bits.
* Fearless Symmetry
* Love & Math - That book by that Russian guy?
* How to Solve it

* Concrete Mathematics - Knuth
* The Road to Reality
* No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics
* <strike>Letters to a Young Mathematician</strike>


[http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm Chicago Undergraduate Mathematics Bibliography]

[http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-recommendation?sort=votes&pageSize=15 Stack overflow recommendations]



[http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/ Math Books: Recommended books about mathematics]

===Recreational Mathematics (Puzzles)===
[https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-best-books-on-recreational-mathematics-and-or-mathematical-puzzles What are some of the best books on recreational mathematics and/or mathematical puzzles?]

[http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/biblio/martin-gardner-biblio.html Martin Gardner puzzle books] [http://martin-gardner.org/PuzzleBooks.html Official list]
* My Best Mathematical Puzzles

[http://www.amazon.com/Raymond-M.-Smullyan/e/B000AQ1NF0 Raymond M. Smullyan]

===Geometry===
* The Four Pillars of Geometry
* Heathstone

===Other Books Relevant===
* Godel's Proof

===[https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-39fe90c3536b#.zlhsct9il This persons list]===

* 1089 and All That by Acheson - NOT ON LIBGEN - The very best introduction to math. This is an amazing little book that gives you a glimpse of practically every feature of math and is fantastically written and very entertaining.
* Indra’s Pearls by Mumford - idea was to explain a piece of completely grown-up, cutting-edge mathematics but assuming you didn’t touch mathematics after school. There’s no book like it — beautifully written, beautifully illustrated, beautifully made.
* Measurement by Lockhart - If you’re struggling with the school curriculum essentially covers all of school mathematics (including calculus) after arithmetic
* Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Once you get interested in the university curriculum. it covers an entire undergraduate mathematics degree — yet, lucid — for many topics, it has the clearest explanations I’ve seen.

Misc: In increasing order of difficulty:
* The Enjoyment of Mathematics by Rademacher & Toeplitz
* What is Mathematics? by Courant & Robbins
* Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen
* How to Solve It by Pólya
* The Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Klein


* [https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-39fe90c3536b#.zlhsct9il This persons list].
** 1089 and All That by Acheson - NOT ON LIBGEN - The very best introduction to math. This is an amazing little book that gives you a glimpse of practically every feature of math and is fantastically written and very entertaining.
** Indra’s Pearls by Mumford - idea was to explain a piece of completely grown-up, cutting-edge mathematics but assuming you didn’t touch mathematics after school. There’s no book like it — beautifully written, beautifully illustrated, beautifully made.
** Measurement by Lockhart - If you’re struggling with the school curriculum essentially covers all of school mathematics (including calculus) after arithmetic
** Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Once you get interested in the university curriculum. it covers an entire undergraduate mathematics degree — yet, lucid — for many topics, it has the clearest explanations I’ve seen.
** Misc: In increasing order of difficulty:
** The Enjoyment of Mathematics by Rademacher & Toeplitz
** What is Mathematics? by Courant & Robbins
** Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen
** How to Solve It by Pólya
** The Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Klein
Three other books I’d like to point out at the beginner’s level are
Three other books I’d like to point out at the beginner’s level are
** Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Taimina, if you crochet
* Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Taimina, if you crochet
** From Calculus to Chaos by Acheson
* From Calculus to Chaos by Acheson
** if you like physics, and Polyhedra by Cromwell
* if you like physics, and Polyhedra by Cromwell
** Finally, if you become interested in the cutting edge, browse the enormous Princeton Companion to Mathematics.
* Finally, if you become interested in the cutting edge, browse the enormous Princeton Companion to Mathematics.


==Science==
==Science==

Latest revision as of 15:00, 3 August 2016

Recommendation Links[edit | edit source]

General[edit | edit source]

  • What is the single most useful book you have ever read?
    • Quiet: The power of Introvert in a world that cant stop talking - Multiple Recommendations...
    • Mini Habits, by Stephen Guise - It does away with the notion that one requires great motivation or super will power to change habits and life.

Bill Gates[edit | edit source]

  • Stuff Matters
  • How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathmatical Thinking
  • Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
  • The Black Swan
  • A Life Decoded (Craig Venter)

Manual for Civilisation[edit | edit source]

Books[edit | edit source]

The Comments Section

General Self Improvement[edit | edit source]

  • Quiet: The power of Introverts

Math[edit | edit source]

  • Visual Group Theory
  • C. Pinter Group Theory
  • Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Multiple (x2) recommendations
  • Calculus - Michael Spivak - Multiple recommendations
  • What is Mathematics? - Multiple recommendations
  • Algebra by Israel M. Gelfand - Multiple recommendations
  • Mathematics for the Million - A few stack overflow recommendations
  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Kind of huge, maybe just the interesting bits.
  • Fearless Symmetry
  • Love & Math - That book by that Russian guy?
  • How to Solve it
  • Concrete Mathematics - Knuth
  • The Road to Reality
  • No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics
  • Letters to a Young Mathematician


Chicago Undergraduate Mathematics Bibliography

Stack overflow recommendations


Math Books: Recommended books about mathematics

Recreational Mathematics (Puzzles)[edit | edit source]

What are some of the best books on recreational mathematics and/or mathematical puzzles?

Martin Gardner puzzle books Official list

  • My Best Mathematical Puzzles

Raymond M. Smullyan

Geometry[edit | edit source]

  • The Four Pillars of Geometry
  • Heathstone

Other Books Relevant[edit | edit source]

  • Godel's Proof

This persons list[edit | edit source]

  • 1089 and All That by Acheson - NOT ON LIBGEN - The very best introduction to math. This is an amazing little book that gives you a glimpse of practically every feature of math and is fantastically written and very entertaining.
  • Indra’s Pearls by Mumford - idea was to explain a piece of completely grown-up, cutting-edge mathematics but assuming you didn’t touch mathematics after school. There’s no book like it — beautifully written, beautifully illustrated, beautifully made.
  • Measurement by Lockhart - If you’re struggling with the school curriculum essentially covers all of school mathematics (including calculus) after arithmetic
  • Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Once you get interested in the university curriculum. it covers an entire undergraduate mathematics degree — yet, lucid — for many topics, it has the clearest explanations I’ve seen.

Misc: In increasing order of difficulty:

  • The Enjoyment of Mathematics by Rademacher & Toeplitz
  • What is Mathematics? by Courant & Robbins
  • Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert & Cohn-Vossen
  • How to Solve It by Pólya
  • The Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Klein

Three other books I’d like to point out at the beginner’s level are

  • Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Taimina, if you crochet
  • From Calculus to Chaos by Acheson
  • if you like physics, and Polyhedra by Cromwell
  • Finally, if you become interested in the cutting edge, browse the enormous Princeton Companion to Mathematics.

Science[edit | edit source]

  • The Structures of Scientific Revolutions (there' s also a 50 years later version)

Finance[edit | edit source]

  • The Millionaire Next Door
  • The richest man in babylon