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General
* 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)
Manual for Civilisation
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
- 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
- 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
Other Books Relevant
- Godel's Proof
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