Erics Most Important Set of Books

• Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
• Einstein Manifolds by Besse
• Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
• Road to Reality by Penrose
• Eguchi Gilkey and Hansen Article
• 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

additional books that changed Eric's life:

1st (Top) Shelf:

• Turkish Phrase Book
• Russian Course
• The Loom of Language
• Spoken and Written Hindi
• Teach Yourself Hindi
• A Guide to Latex
• Turkish Grammer
• Everyday Indonesian
• Colloquial Turkish
• ?
• Hindi & Urdu
• Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
• ?
• Basic Algebra I
• The Ideas of Practical Physics
• Pattern Classification
• Introduction to ? Field Theory ?
• Supermanifolds: Second Edition
• General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
• ?
• Differential Topology
• ?
• ?
• Elements of the Theory of Computation
• Elements of Information Theory
• A History of Economic Theory
• Introductory Economics
• Peddling Prosperity
• ?
• Accounting for Tastes
• More Heat than Light
• The General Theory
• ?

2nd Shelf:

• ?
• ?
• Introduction to Linear Algebra
• Modern Elementary Particle Physics
• ?
• Introduction to Superstrings
• ?
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V
• Principles of Quantum Mechanics
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• 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
• ?
• ?
• Concepts of Particle Physics
• General Relativity for Mathematicians

3rd Shelf:

• 36 Lectures in Biology
• Not Even Wrong
• Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the XXXXs - How Good are the Numbers?
• Perfumes
• The Beat of a Different Drum
• The Geometric Universe
• QED and the Men Who Made It
• Gravitation
• Encyclopedia of Cosmology
• Encyclopedia of Physics
• Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in General Space-Time
• Advanced Scientific Computation
• ?
• The Strangest Man
• The Jazz of Physics
• Heraclitean Fire
• 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 Shelf:

• Einstein's Dream
• ?
• Makam
• Save the Cat!
• The Theoretical Minimum
• Quantum Mechanics
• The Diary of Anais Nin
• Symmetry
• 100 Great Operas
• ?
• Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
• Eat the Rich
• The Diary of Anais Nin (Another double - different edition)
• ?
• ?
• The Annotated Alice
• ?
• Bloodlands
• ?
• 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
• ?
• ?
• Daemon
• Father to Son
• ?