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Here is a list of the
books I have recently read or are currently reading.
Mathematics Related
- 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
- 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
- Pagels, Beyond Belief, The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Random House,
2003
- 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
- Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Vintage Books,
1989
- Krauss, ATOM: A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond, Little, Brown and Company,
2001
- Brown, The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition, Doubleday,
2004
- Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven, Doubleday,
2003
- Krakauer, Into the Wild. Anchor Books, 1997
- Faller, Beyond The Matrix. Chalice Press, 2004
- Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World. Ballantine Books, 1996
- Alder, The Measure Of All Things. Free Press, 2002
- Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation. The
University of Michigan Press, 1994
- Grisham, Skipping Christmas. Doubleday, 2001
- Saey/Garrett, The Gospel Reloaded. Pinon Press, 2003
- Warren, The Purpose Driven Life. Zondervan, 2002
- Fatsis, Word Freaks. Houghton Mifflin, 2001
- Armstrong, It's Not About The Bike. Berkley Books, 2001
- Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier. Berkley Medallion
Books, 1968
- Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps. Broadway Books, 2000
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead. Tor Books, 1994
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game. Tor Books, 1994
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