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Here is a list of the
books I have recently read or are currently reading.
Mathematics Related
- Netz & Noel, The Archimedes Codex. Da Capo Press, 2007
- Beckmann, A History of Pi. The Golem Press, 1971
- Nahin, An Imaginary Tale: The Story of Sqrt(-1). Princeton University Press, 1998
- Schey, div, grad, curl, and all that. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1973
- Boyer, The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development. Dover Publications, Inc., 1949
- Maor, Trigonometric Delights. Princeton
University Press, 1998
- Maor, e: The Story of a Number. Princeton
University Press, 1998
- Berlinghoff/Gouvea, Math through the Ages. Oxton
House Publishers, 2002
- James, Remarkable Mathematicians. Cambridge
University Press, 2002
- Casti, Five Golden Rules. John Wiley & Sons, 1996
- Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus. Vintage Books, 1997
- Gleick, Chaos: Making A New Science. Penguin Books, 1987
General Interest
- Simon, North to the Night, Broadway Books, 1998
- Doxiadis and Papadimitriou, Logicomix, Bloomsbury USA, 2009
- Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory, Anchor Books, 2010
- Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Riverhead Books, 2009
- Krakauer, Eiger Dreams, Anchor Books, 1997
- Campbell, The Power of Myth, Anchor Books, 1988
- Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, Adventure Press,
2001
- Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks , Broadway Books,
2006
- Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World : A Blind Man's Journey to Climb
Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story, Penguin Books,
2002
- Krauss, ATOM: A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond, Little, Brown and Company,
2001
- Krakauer, Into the Wild. Anchor Books, 1997
- Alder, The Measure Of All Things. Free Press, 2002
- Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation. The
University of Michigan Press, 1994
- Warren, The Purpose Driven Life. Zondervan, 2002
- Fatsis, Word Freaks. Houghton Mifflin, 2001
- Armstrong, It's Not About The Bike. Berkley Books, 2001
- Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps. Broadway Books, 2000
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