Erics Most Important Set of Books

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Mathematics

• The Shape of Space by Jeffrey R. Weeks
• Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
• Einstein Manifolds by Besse
• Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
• Road to Reality by Penrose
• Gravitation, Gauge Theories And Differential Geometry Eguchi, Gilkey, and Hansen 1980
• 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

Biology

• Double Helix by James D. Watson
• Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature by Erwin Chargaff
• The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson
• The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr
• A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited by Mark Ptashne

History of Science

• Science Since Babylon by Derek J. de Solla Price

Evolutionary Theory

• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin

Extracted from Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast @43:03 :

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Stephen Jones

Economics

• More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) by Philip Mirowski
• The Physics of Wall Street by James Weatherall

From Eric's bookshelves

Twitter photo of Eric's bookshelf:

1st (Top) Shelf:

• Turkish Phrase Book
• Russian Course
• The Loom of Language by Bodmer and Hogben
• Spoken and Written Hindi by Fairbanks and Misra
• Teach Yourself Hindi
• A Guide to Latex by Kopka and Daly
• Turkish Grammar
• Everyday Indonesian
• Colloquial Turkish
• Teach Yourself Hindi by Rupert Snell
• Hindi & Urdu
• Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
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• Basic Algebra I by Nathan Jacobson
• The Ideas of Particle Physics by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
• Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
• Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Masud Chaichian (Author), Nikolai F. Nelipa (Contributor)
• Supermanifolds: Second Edition by Bryce DeWitt
• General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics by Norbert Straumann
• Quantum Mechanics and Integrals by Feynman and Hibbs
• Differential Topology by Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack
• Morse Theory by John Milnor
• Characteristic Classes by John Willard Milnor & James D. Stasheff
• Elements of the Theory of Computation by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
• Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas
• A History of Economic Theory
• Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
• Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
• Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
• Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
• More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
• The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
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2nd Shelf:

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• Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer by Necia Cooper
• Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
• Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
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• Introduction to Superstrings
• INVARIANCE THEORY, THE HEAT EQUATION, AND THE ATIYAH-SINGER INDEX THEOREM by Peter B. Gilkey
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V by Michael Spivak
• Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Hawkins, Ellis, et al.
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II by Michael Spivak
• An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory by K. Moriyasu
• Calculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak
• Shelter Island II
• Topology and Analysis by B. Booss & D. D. Bleecker
• Representations of Compact Lie Groups
• Lie Algebras in Particle Physics by Howard Georgi
• Grand Unified Theories by Graham Ross
• Quantum Field Theory and Topology by Albert S. Schwartz, E. Yankowsky, S. Levy
• Essential Relativity by W. Rindler
• Modern Geometry I by B. A. Dubrovin & S. P. Novikov
• Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Raoul Bott & Loring W. Tu
• Analysis, Manifolds and Physics by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat & Cecile DeWitt-Morette
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• Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem by Patrick Shanahan
• Concepts of Particle Physics by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf
• General Relativity for Mathematicians by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu

3rd Shelf:

• 36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
• Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
• Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers? by United States Congress
• Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
• The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra
• The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose by S. A. Huggett (Editor), L. J. Mason (Editor), K. P. Tod (Editor), S. T. Tsou (Editor), N. M. J. Woodhouse (Editor)
• QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber
• Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, & John Archibald Wheeler
• Encyclopedia of Cosmology by Norriss S. Hetherington
• Encyclopedia of Physics by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg
• Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time by Stephen A. Fulling
• Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation by Richard E. Crandall
• The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
• The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
• The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
• Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
• A Literary Companion to Science edited by Walter Gratzer
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
• The Denial of Death
• The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
• Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America by Scott Beekman
• Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein

4th (Bottom) Shelf:

• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
• Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel
• Makam by Karl L. Signell
• Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
• The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
• Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
• The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Six
• Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
• 100 Great Operas by Henry W. Simon
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• Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions by Chris Quigg
• Eat the Rich by P. J. O'Rourke
• The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three
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• The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
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• I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious" by Maxwell Nurnberg
• Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke
• Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P. J. O'Rourke
• Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann, & Michael Metteer
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• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• Father to Son
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