What’s the most wonderful textbook you’ve ever read?

A few for me: + The Feynman Lectures on Physics + Sean Carroll’s book on general relativity + David Griffiths on electromagnetism + The Molecular Biology of the Cell

And: + The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs + Taylor and Wheeler, Spacetime Physics (2nd ed more than later!)

Thanks everyone, the suggestions have been wonderful! One extra from me: Asher Peres’s wonderful book about quantum theory!

Incidentally, it’d be nice to extract all the replies & QTs to this into a doc, and then try using GPT4 to extract all the unique books, and order them by number of recommendations. If anyone knows how to do step 1, that’d be great!

Most wonderful textbook I’ve read is definitely Quantum Computation & Quantum Information. Must’ve read it 5x. Thank you for the masterpiece, cambridge.org/highereducatio…

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information | Higher Education from Cambridge University Press Discover Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, 1st Edition, Michael A. Nielsen, HB ISBN: 9781107002173 on Higher Education from Cambridge cambridge.org

Thank you!

The Elements of Computing Systems (aka nand to Tetris) by Nisan and Schocken is a masterpiece.

Yup. I’ve only dipped into it, but it seemed just wonderful!

Not enough Oscar winning texts in your replies, so may I add Physically Based Rendering?

Hah. Great suggestion!

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information 🥹🥹🥹

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by and Isaac Chuang.

Thank you Spiros!

Unironically, yours. Greatly changed my life. Additionally, Niven’s Introduction to the Theory of Numbers.

Thanks, that’s lovely to hear!

QCQI! went into the quantum computing rabbithole for 6 months after that 😀

Thanks! Daniel

The Art of Game design by @jesseschell

Oh yeah, great book!

fry

Gardner’s Art Through The Ages! I’ve collected many different editions (makes for a fun comparative reading of art history interpretations over several decades), all found at used bookstores/sales ov.er the last ~15 years

This is great - I was hoping someone would recommend an art history book. I enjoyed Robert Hughes’ book, but would love something more in depth!

Chris 🎸🎵🌍

Salt tectonics, Jackson & Hudec A unified grand tour of theoretical physics, Lawrie The principles of quantum mechanics, Dirac

Lawrie should be much better known kiri

Some come to mind easier than others: + Lie Algebras in Particle Physics by Howard Georgi (difficult and somewhat niche) + Mathematical Physics by Sadri Hassani (Springer version, very accessible)

Loved Georgi. Taught a class from it, and it strongly influenced my research

Nirmalya Kajuri

Electricity and Magnetism by Purcell Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos by @stevenstrogatz Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods by Asher Peres

Asher’s book is just wonderful! Should have been in my thread! Kording. Lab 🦖

Arnold’s Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics

Remarkable book. The appendix on invariant metrics on Lie groups influenced my research a lot

Spencer

Possibly it’s Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds by John M Lee; truly wonderful.

Great book! Photorin

Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology (Bott & Tu)

Great book! adad8m🦞

One of my first love

Great book! ScienceStanley

Spivak’s Introduction to Differential Geometry. ellis

The Molecular Biology of the Cell (I like pretty pictures) Steven Sinofsky

now on its 10th edition.

Alex Olshevsky

I remember really enjoying this one as an undergraduate. Instead of developing Abel’s theorem as a sequence of theorems and lemmas, it gives you a sequence of not-too-difficult exercises along with hints (and solutions in the back). In the process of solving all the exercises, you “discover” Abel’s theorem on your own.

Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️ 🚀

Feynman lectures vol 3 Pauli Theory of Relativity Kittel Thermal Physics Pauling General Chemistry Jaynes Probability Theory Becker Economic Theory Miller Managerial Dilemmas Michael Frank Martin

👆This guy has good taste in textbooks. Max Kesin

AIMA Linear algebra done right by Axler Krishnaswamy Lab

Your quantum computing book :). Jeffrey Emanuel

Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph Gallian is great. Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel, & Spence. Language, Proof, and Logic by Barwise and Etchemendy.

Kristin Posehn

The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides—the Whole Earth Catalog called it ‘the best how-to book we’ve seen on any subject’ Michael Frank Martin

Lots of good ones already listed here. I’ll offer one I haven’t seen mentioned yet: Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer Trevor McCourt

Yours obviously (Ike definitely doesn’t have a gun to my head currently)

Zephyr On Call

haven’t read your quantum one but if it’s anything like this bad boy I’m interested

Jeffrey Emanuel

This book kicked my ass. Not easy reading!

Mike

Feller’s Intro to Probability Theory, volumes I and II Jeffrey Emanuel

Absolute classic (volume 1 at least— I never read the continuous stuff in v2). I still think about some of those problems occasionally. Dr. Jocelynn Pearl

ScienceStanley

Ordered! :P trevor (taylor’s version)

not exactly a textbook, but the little schemer! Dwarkesh Patel

It’s such a wonderful pedagogical approach. No explanations. Just question answer. Pure Rl. Randy MacLeod

Many of the textbooks already mentioned and: The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy Frank H. Shu University of California, Berkeley Subjects: Astronomy Physics uscibooks.aip.org/books/the-…

The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy - University Science Books uscibooks.aip.org Randy MacLeod

I wonder if @elonmusk has a list and if he misses the world of physics. Abe Asfaw

Swokowski calculus with analytic geometry and Lang linear algebra! Jim Linz

Coding The Matrix

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Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Steven Meyer Addicted to cycling & science.

MTW Scott Mueller

Causality by Judea Pearl. Practically every page contains some gold of probability, logic, philosophy, statistics, or, of course, causality. even constant

Rational Trigonometry - N.J.Wildberg attilacsordas

Brian Potter

Factory Physics. Gives a clear, quantitative explanation for why the process improvement ideas from things like “The Goal” and the Toyota Production System work. Leo Polovets

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The Algorithm Design Manual by @stevenskiena. I liked algorithm textbooks in general, but this one was great because it spent time describing real world scenarios and how how to think about algorithm design (as opposed to just presenting a huge list of algorithms). dave

Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles by Eisberg and Resnick. Nobody over says this one, sigh, but they were emeritus when they wrote it. It was simply a labor of love. Starts from blackbody radiation from first principles. Appendix on deriving internal quantum numbers from only knowledge of calculus. Even wild concepts like electric repulsion as a statistical consequence of the Pauli exclusion principle. Tricky

Visual Differential Geometry was very good, but more of a nitter.net/emmaconcepts/sta… book Emma P

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It looks like one of those strange category of textbooks that are not the kind of thing you want to use to learn about from, but to find a different way of framing things to deepen your understanding. joao - mostly away

Strong recency bias here, but The Little Schemer

Lucas Timmons

On Writing Well By William Zinsser SFPurgatory

The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present (3 Volumes) a.co/d/08p2GLP

The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present (3… As New books, As New jackets, in a better than Very Good slipcase. First Edition / First Printings. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Editions and First Printings in original illustrated… amazon.com Ryan Moulton

Spacetime Physics - Edwin F. Taylor Information Theory Inference and Learning Algorithms - David J.C. MacKay Pawel Pachniewski

I’m not sure Peter Gray’s “Psychology” came to mind. Caught me by surprise. Great clarity, I suppose. Lautaro Vergara🏑 🇺🇦🐘

The Glass Bead Game, by Hesse. क्षेत्रज्ञ

An Introduction to Statistical Inference - Michael Trosset Chris Sandvick

Ignition by Clark. Probably stretching the definition of textbook here but his expected audience was others going into rocketry and those interested therein. Andrew H.

I always thought Richard Mattuck’s “Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem” was an exceptionally well written book on introductory field theory methods for many-body physics. adjoint +/- norm 🦀

“Optimal Implementation of Functional Programming Languages”. Future will be built on this book. Wojciech Gryc

“Evolution of Civilizations”. Truly changed my entire perspective on history, growth, and humanity.

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SICP Linear Algebra Done Right Pranav NM Shah

MBOC is fantastic. However for protein structure i really like amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Pr…

Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function, and Motion, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC… Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function, and Motion, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series) amazon.co.uk astrolabe abelard

Michael Cohen

Normative Ethics by Shelly Kagan Ulkar

Modern physics by Arthur Beiser robert ⚡️

Two not already mentioned: The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy Visual Complex Analysis Miles Stoudenmire

“A First Course in General Relativity”, by Bernard Schutz Dennis E. Curry

Probably a lesser well known text from intro to drugs and behaviour in undergrad. Way before med school and way way before psychiatry. It transformed my views around addiction, which undoubtedly led to the more concrete aspects of my personal philosophy as a whole… still have it teslahitchhiker

csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfus… Ali Zahid

Quantum Chemistry-Lowe ∱allibilist (is poasting rn)

SICP - Abelson, Sussman Also: Signals and Systems - Oppenheim, Willsky Linear Algebra - Gil Strang Introduction to Electrodynamics - Griffiths Name can’t be blank

Div, Grad, Curl and all that. It was my second serious textbook, after “Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach”, which I loved. Dikla

o Feynman’s Lectures o Probability theory: the logic of science, by Jaynes Pratik Rath

One of my favourites which I find quite underrated is @NigelGoldenfeld ’s “Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group” Freek Wiedijk

It’s also about the only textbook I have ever read 🤗

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Atomic Physics by Christopher J. Foot. Read it while waiting for equipment to show up. Everything made perfect sense. Björn Ivarsson

I really like Arnold’s “Ordinary Differential Equations”. fellow ⚚ traveler ❤️‍🔥

nonlinear dynamics and chaos (by strogatz) Nancy Hey

Quantum universe 😜

Lev

I guess what influenced me the most in descending order The principles of quantum mechanics by Paul Dirac The quantum theory of fields by Steven Weinberg gauge fields knots and gravity by John Baez and Javier Muniain Brian Skinner

The first textbook I really loved was Shankar’s Principles of Quantum Mechanics, as an undergraduate. As a grad student I came to love John Ziman’s Theory of Solids. Jon Teets 🇺🇸 🇺🇾 🇨🇷 🇨🇳

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I like “Probability Theory” by Jaynes a lot eleanorina

an old copy of robert resnick’s relativity and quantum theory that my HS physics teacher gave to me something about that straightforward, clear style and Kittel’s Solid State physics, what an impressive feat on so many levels, just 😘 (not something i studied it was a friend’s) rajiv

alberts + griffiths >> but atkins pchem is up there as well effie

Gilbert’s developmental biology Leo

The Alchemist Sandeep

I’m having a hard time formulating the p versus np problem statement academically. I keep having to go back and reference it to “quantify” the problem statement. Need a textbook for this. “It’s easy to verify a Sudoku puzzle solution instantly. But hard to compute one.” Why?? Sales Is Between

“Illustrating C”, Donald Alcock, CUP, 2nd Ed., 1994. An introduction to programming in C. Short spiral-bound notebook was intended to replace “a great set of classroom notes”. Astonishingly better for learning and more beautiful than any alternative. Students w/o this are robbed.

eider abacus 🛡️

I would still have to say the Feynman lectures, if we’re sticking to just one. Féchos

Aeron Laffere

The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Piney. Hardly a textbook but it taught me everything I know about looking and seeing in the natural world. :)

structure and interpretation of computer programs Roman Werpachowski 🇵🇱🇺🇦

goodreads.com/book/show/8885…

PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That is the classic s… goodreads.com

I loved “The Way Things Work” by David Macaulay. Also, Anna Wierzbicka’s “Semantics. Primes and Universals” was a great inspiration to me at some point of my life. ℝ𝕠𝕠𝕫𝕓𝕖𝕙 𝔻𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕒𝕙𝕚

Convex Optimization, By Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe. Job Hernandez

Structure and interpretation of computer programs. This book bent my mind and it made me cry of joy. It was beautiful Claire 0xCAFE_BABE

I LOVED the Feynman Lectures. Got to these only around age 16-17. Before that, I loved the Resnick & Halliday PHYSICS Abdullah Khalid

Besides the obvious answer, I learned Calculus from Apostle. This was a life changing experience.

Trace @ Zuzalu

I really loved Understanding Analysis. Such intuitive explanations, good exercises, and somehow made analysis fun: amazon.com/Understanding-Ana…

Understanding Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) Understanding Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) amazon.com Daanish

JD Jackson’s Electrodynamics (for problems!) Guillaume Dalle

Anything @sirbayes ever wrote Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️

Mas-Colell Subhodeep Vicky Sarkar

I’d like to add - From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision by Philip Nelson physics.upenn.edu/biophys/Pt… john mccurley

The Foundations of Arithmetic by Frege! Eric Kernfeld

Koepsell and Weiss “Epidemiologic Methods” cameron

for me it’s absolutely the little schemer Sean Talts

.@rlmcelreath’s Statistical Rethinking. Clarified statistics for me for the first time (after several serious attempts) and led me to get involved in Bayesian modeling language development. Imp in the SF Bay (Jul 15-28 + ??), NYC (??)

ironically all answers that come to mind I have read only a third of: Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by Mackay Statistical Rethinking by McElreath Napkin by Evan Chen

VFabricio

These: sheafification.com/the-fast-… عقبة الأيسر

Christopher M Bishop - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Erfan Pirmorad

David Griffiths on Electromagnetism, by far the best! Enjoyed every sentence of the book. 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕔 ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕝𝕖

Contrary opinion: Feynman’s lectures on physics aren’t a textbook, and read as such they’re terrible. Merle

Categories in Context Matthew Leavitt

A great way to understand harmony simonandschuster.com/books/H…

Harmonic Experience An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotio… simonandschuster.com Devon

Cell Biology by the Numbers, has beautiful envelope math for the dynamics of cells Probabilistic Robotics, Thrun et al. Factory Physics, concise approach to thinking about engineering factories SantiG

Optics - Hecht wolf of walgreens

Either Fourier Transforms or Elements of PDE by Sneddon. Both are excellent

Sashank Gondala

Besides Feynman lectures on physics, + Gilbert Strang’s books + QI&QC by you and Isaac Chaung + NN&DL by you + Galois theory by Emil Artin + Cryptography Engineering by Ferguson, Schneier, Kohno + Security Engineering by Anderson author_is_patrick

Elghandour

Knots and physics by Kauffman Shubham

Haven’t even completed 20% but Mathematical Omnibus goodreads.com/book/show/4288… was a rewarding read whatever little I read of it. Same with your book on Quantum Computing and H.C. Verma’s book on Quantum Physics.

Mathematical Omnibus : Thirty Lectures on Classic Mathe… The book consists of thirty lectures on diverse topics,… goodreads.com Chief.

Fundamentals of Physics - David Halliday, Jearl Walker, and Robert Resnick SerPenguinSer

Arnold Shoenberg’s Theory of Harmony - an all engrossing eccentric masterpiece Parisa Rashidi

Hands down, “The Nature of Computation”, by Stephan Mertens & Cristopher Moore.

Phillip Helbig

Cosmology: The Science of the Universe by Edward R. Harrison.

Srđan

Abbas Immunology, just a delight to read and understand, esp. for such a messed up topic Justin H. Wilson

Geometrical methods of mathematical physics by Bernard Schulz. Only text book I’ve read cover to cover. And twice. rajan lukose

Evolutionary Design By Computers SICP Networks (Newman) Ani

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On Trails: An Exploration —by @robertmoor_ Land and motion, nature and evolution, language and culture, knowledge representation, map vs territory, … , all the way down to the Internet and the Web. Specially loved the hypertext references and closing remarks on Vannevar Bush. boolpath · 张豪

2 Jan 2021 Favorite book of 2020: On Trails (@robertmoor_) ❤️ amazon.com/Trails-Exploratio… • Other finalists: Grain Brain (David Perlmutter) The Reason for God (Tim Keller) ANSI Common Lisp (Paul Graham) The Dollar Trap (Eswar Prasad) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan) George Jones

Spacetime Physics by Taylor, Wheeler In my high school library; a life changer. Lectures on Quantum Theory Mathematical And Structural Foundations by Isham Beautiful little book. Mathematical Physics by Geroch In the orthogonal complement of the space of similarly titled books. Josh Job 🌐🥑🔰🇺🇦

I really enjoyed Jaynes’ Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. It has its warts but reading it, especially the early chapters, was like a breath of fresh air after having held my breath a long time. I had a similar feeling reading Dirac’s POQM. Prabhakar Krishnamur

  1. Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory - Ken Binmore 2) Introduction to Dynamic Systems: Theory, Models, and Applications - David Luenberger 3) College Physics - AP French (don’t remember the exact title). manipublicinfo

Visual differential geometry and forms by needham

Chelo Arreola

Cosimo

Compilers (Aho, Lam, Sethi, Ullman) interstice

What is Mathematics? by Courant and Robbins ⎛@frederic@mastodon.cloud ⎞

Algorithms by by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani book.huihoo.com/pdf/algorith… Introduction to the Theory of Computation by M. Sipser Paul Piwek @logicmachines@mastodonapp.uk

Miller and Ranum’s Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python Danny Raede

The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander Antipodean Bob

calculus with analytical geometry, 3rd edition, by larson, hostetler, and edwards. Darren

The Selfish Gene William Goodrich

The Science of Sound and Practical Electronics for Inventors Emma Davies Smith

An Introduction to Statistical Learning 🙌

Sai Sunkam

Visual Complex Analysis - Needham Dan

Neural Networks and Deep Learning, by . :D neuralnetworksanddeeplearnin… Pato López

Calculus. Spivak Ian Bicking

I don’t know what I’d think about it now, but I enjoyed The Irony Of Democracy when I was younger Kevin M Rasch, PhD

Brown and Churchill’s Complex Variables and Analysis mheducation.com/highered/pro…

Complex Variables and Applications Get the 9e of Complex Variables and Applications by James Brown and Ruel Churchill Textbook, eBook, and other options. ISBN 9780073383170. Copyright 2014 mheducation.com Paul Nakata

I don’t really care about Scala but Programming in Scala was exceptionally well written Mickey Atwal

“Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms” by David Mackay. Nothing like it. Converted a generation of physicists to the beauty of machine learning. Littered with gems. Kushal Thaman

The physics textbook by Halliday and Resnick. It was the textbook for six separate courses I took. aL

linear algebra done right by sheldon axler

Django van Dango

Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai Ivan Deutsch

Purcell E&M. It’s why I decided to major in physics. It’s a masterpiece. Xavier Gonzalez

Introduction to Probability by @stat110 and Jessica Hwang Bruno Chagas

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, @stevenstrogatz Jake Arkinstall, PhD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’ve read a few that I liked, a few that I loved, and three that fundamentally changed my view of the topics at the time. 2 physics, 1 compsci. 1. Arnold’s Mathematical Methods 2. Landau/Lifshitz - Classical Theory of Fields 3. Henry S Warren Jr - Hacker’s Delight. Ryan Aldred

“Rational choice in an uncertain world” by Reid Hastie and Robyn Dawes Johan Rhodin

Reliability: Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods by Leemis Continuous System Simulation by Cellier and Kofman adad8m🦞

I’ve been hanging out with this one recently and it’s slowly becoming one of my favourite

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Probably J. E. Humphreys - Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory. Or some of the other great algebra books written by the same author Michael Pershan

Dirk Bruere

Gravitation MWT Jason Cunliffe

3Blue1Brown Nvar7

Kenneth Kunen, Set Theory: An introduction to Independence Proofs Garding and Tambour, Algebra for Computer Science Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology Michael Gummelt

Spivak’s Calculus is great Andrew Tan

David Dugdale Essentials of Electromagnetism - succinct introduction Landau & Lifshitz Quantum Mechanics - for its explanation that “measurement” is weird 💡 Xiao-Gang Wen Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems - for its translation of the Dao De Jing 😊 Ben Hauer

QCQI is definitely what got me where I am now, that book really opened my eyes on the world of quantum computation, and inspired me to do my master’s degree in QC! Hermes Trismegistus

Griffith’s Electrodynamics textbook is a classic. My personal favorite is Shreve’s Stohastic Calculus because it was the only textbook that made the subject approachable for me. iamnotintegrated

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose Superconformal Hassaan (he,him)

Hard to pick one. Here are the best ones that I would pick QFT by Peskin and Schroeder Thermal physics by Schroeder University Physics by Young and Freedman GR workbook by Thormas Moore Intro to E and M by Griffiths Data Generating Process

I found this textbook by @ColmezPierre very inspiring

Aromatic Cats

Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry. It’s wonderful in the sense that I hate myself and want to go into a coma but is the best damn way to learn biochem. Douglas Natelson

Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism. (Cgs was annoying, but pedagogy was great) Anakin

I haven’t read every page of all of these, but every page I have read has been pure gold Ideals, Varieties and Algorithms - Cox, Little, O’Shea Algorithms - Jeff Erickson The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4A and 4B - Donald Knuth Naive Lie Theory - John Stillwell Eric Auld

Michael Spivak’s Calculus Stanley’s Enumerative Combinatorics (lifetime to read) Sakshee

George Simmons’ Differential Equations With Applications and Historical Notes is one of my favourite books. My perspective on a significant portion of mathematics was profoundly altered by it. Timoer

Electrochemical Methods by Bard and Faulkner Domenico Delle Side

I liked very much the set of books by Landau & Lifshitz. Also Introduction to the structure of matter by Chalmers Addy

David Griffiths On QM Tarun Raheja

Physics from Symmetry by Jakob Schwichtenberg! Almost almost any other book by him honestly - wonderfully lucid and clear in exposition, and very very conversational.

Chairman Shaq

Good choices @ the Feynman Lectures and Griffiths -The Landau + Lifshitz series -The Principles of QM by Dirac -Mathematical Methods by Boas -Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai -Quantum field theory in a nutshell by Zee -Gravitation by Misner -Basic Algebra II by Jacobson Aniruddha Mukherjee

I loved Essentials of Discrete Mathematics by David Hunter. Short and sweet. amzn.eu/d/inUnEMO

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-Fundamentals of physics by Shankar -Introduction to classical mechanics by David Morin -Special Relativity by French -Quantum Mechanics by Cohen-Tannoudji -An introduction to thermal physics by Schroeder -The Classical Theory of Fields by Landau -Arnold’s Differential Equations Luigi Foschini

Dharmic Centrist

  1. Feynmans lectures in Physics. 2. Organic Chemistry - Morrison & Boyd. 3. Calculus books by Mir Publications (Piskunov, Maron). 4. Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang. 5. Quantum Computing by Mike and Ike 😂 Gautam Menon

John Cardy’s “Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics” Emma

Maybe not a classic, but “Mathematical Methods for Molecular Science: Theory and Applications, Visualizations and Narrative” written by my wonderful physical chem prof John Straub at BU. Maciej Juzaszek

Alexander Dante Camuto

Geometric Measure Theory by Frank Morgan elkement

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson/Sussman AKA the wizard book sicp.sourceacademy.org/ antidb

Mathematical Cryptography Hoffstein, Silverman Feynman Lectures Elliptic Curves Washington Mathematics of PKI Galbraith Chemistry the central science humblerock

I have to believe that the most wonderful book is one I haven’t read yet. Tim Bresnahan

Godemont, Algebra Eduardo González

This book was a pleasure to read. The historical notes next to the magnificent explanations was a fantastic experience.

Ananya Chadha

Can’t recommend Conversations on Natural Philosophy enough. It was the textbook Faraday read that started him in physics, since he didn’t go to college. Hands down best ‘textbook’ I’ve ever read. first principles explanations of everything in physics, reshaped my reality. Mukesh Tekwani 💙 (can’t waste 💰 on blue tick)

The book by Andrew Tannenbaum “Operating Systems” is an old one but still my favourite, partly because of the entire MINIX code in C at the end of the book. Data Communications and Networking by Forouzan and TCP/IP Protocol book by same author are superb too. Suresh Govindarajan DLM

Purcell Electricity and Magnetism from the Berkeley series. Jeremy Howard

Neural networks for pattern recognition by Christopher Bishop. Gödel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel and James Newman Fabrizio Oliviero 🇧🇷

Many body particle physics, Gerald Mahan. Lecture notes on QM, Gordon Quantum field theory vol. I, S. Weinberg Joshua Z

Ore’s “Number Theory and Its History.” Excellent intro requiring no background other than high school algebra. Read in 9th grade and had major influence on my career + research.