Book Recommendations

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General

• 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

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

Books

General Self Improvement

• Quiet: The power of Introverts

Math

• Visual Group Theory
• C. Pinter Group Theory
• Mathematics: Its Content, Methods, and Meaning - Multiple (x2) recommendations
• Spivak Calculus - Multiple Recomenedations
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Kind of huge, maybe just the interesting bits.
• Fearless Symmetry
• That book by that russian guy?
• What is Mathematics?
• Letters to a Young Mathematician

Stack overflow recommendations

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

• 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

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

Finance

• The Millionaire Next Door
• The richest man in babylon