Science & Math Books on My Bookshelf

[z-component]

What science/math books do you have on your bookshelf?

I will start:

• Teach Yourself C++ by Sams
• PHP by Visual
• Delphi in a Nutshell by O'Reilly
• Geometry by Prentice Hall
• Chemistry: The Central Science by Brown and LeMay, Jr.
• HTML Studio Skills by Bell & Eby
• The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
• E=mc² by Bodanis

EDIT: Forgot some.

 

[JamesU]

- Hyperspace-Michio Kaku
-Visions-Michio Kaku
-Learn HTML in 24 hours- I don't know
-Relativity- Albert Einstein
-Nanotechnology- I don't know
-Physics: the easy way- I don't know

 

[BicycleTree]

My family owns something like 5,000 books, and probably five hundred to a thousand or so science/math books. Our walls are covered with bookcases.

 

[JamesU]

Five hundred? You'll have a LOT of posting to do

 

[cronxeh]

schaum's outlines on:
-general, organic, biological chemistry
-applied physics
-physics for engineering and science
-electric circuits
-genetics
-biochemistry
-organic chemistry
-molecular and cell biology
-astronomy
-advanced mathematics for engineers and scientists
-vector analysis and an introduction to tensor analysis
-human anatomy and physiology

Appearance and Reality by Peter Kosso
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes by Felder
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Organic Chemistry Principles and Industrial Practice - Mark M Green and Harold A. Wittcoff
The 8051 MicroController 2nd Ed by Mackenzie
Hacking Matter by McCarthy
QED by Feynman
An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics by Hill
PHP 4 manual, Matlab 6.5, Simulink 5, Solid Edge for Designers Version 16
Visual Basic 6.0 manual
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Biology by Raven and Johnson (1238 pages!)
Modern Physics by Tipler
about 2-3 dozen IEEE Spectrum journals, Popular Science, Scientific American, etc

 

[Monique]

Biology by Raven and Johnson (1238 pages!)

Hah, I have a biology book of ~1500 pages and too many other books to mention here, I don't know how much they weigh, I am still waiting for the day that my bookshelf is going to collapse under the weight. My hat off to BicycleTree, I can't imagine owning so many books on science

 

[BicycleTree]

I have a dictionary of 7000 pages, all in one volume. It is approximately a cube with 1-foot edges.

 

[z-component]

Wow! You should take a picture of that. :)

 

[Danger]

I don't know what you consider as 'science books'. If you count 1960's era TV repair manuals, then probably about 5% of my 1,200 or so books would qualify. A couple of decades worth of Scientific Americans augment that.

 

[stoned]

-basic algebra,
-elementary mathemathics,
-chemistry for dummies,
-physics for idiots,
etc,

 

[fourier jr]

i've got a bunch more than these but i can't remember tham all off the top of my head
-- schaum's outlines of: advanced calculus, vector analysis, abstract algebra, java + data structures, combinatorics
-- real analysis by royden
-- real & complex analysis by rudin
-- foundations of mathematical analysis by pfaffenberger/johnsonbaugh
-- principles of mathematical analysis by rudin
-- toplogy by munkres
-- general topology by willard
-- advanced calculus by folland
-- intro to complex variables (?) by brown/churchill
-- abstract algebra by herstein
-- topics in algebra also by herstein
-- algebra by hungerford
-- algebra by grove
-- elementary partial differential equations w/boundary value problems by haberman
-- partial differential equations by mcowen
-- intro to the history of math by... evans(?)
... & a bunch of other textbooks. i haven't gotten rid of a book in ~3yrs

other science/math books which aren't textbooks:
-- the turning point by capra
-- GEB by hofstadter
-- courant/hilbert by reid
-- adventures of a mathematician by ulam
-- a few other biographies which i can't remember off the top of my head
-- euclid's window by mlodinow
-- flatland by edwin abbott abbott

 

[dextercioby]

Abers,Lee "Gauge Theories"
Aitchinson,Hey "Gayge Theories in Particle Physics"...
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Zwillinger "CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae",31-st edition.

Daniel.

P.S.I haven't counted them:all in mathematics,physics and chemistry.

 

[neurocomp2003]

Books I want to add to my collection
Haykin's Neural Nets
Mitchells GA
Penrose Road to Reality
Steven Hawking Bday book(think it was wheeler, thorpe or Penrose that compiled it)
Kandels NeuroPsychology book
Chao&Fractals
ALIfe Confereence Papers
Numerical Recipes in C++
3D Game book
Koblitz Cryptography & Number THeory.
**anyone want to spare $1G CDN?

Books I Hold dear
CBN by flake
Spiking neurons by gerstner
Bartos Reinforcement Learning
My neural Nets book(waiting to pick up Haykin's and maybe i'll get him to sign it)
Eliot's "whats going on up there
Steve Grands "Creation"
Geary "body Electric
Penrose's 2 ENM and Cogni one.
Hofstader GEB
Farahs: Neurovision
Pinel: Neuropsychology
Carroll&Ostlie: Astrophysics
Foley & Van Dam: Computer Graphics

Novels:
2 books on brain mapping
Chaos &comlpexity, Chaos(i want to get the real big Chaos&Fractals book)
Kaku's visions & Hyperspace
"UP from teh Dragons"
"Mind so Rare"
2 books on Cryptography
Star and Planets
Quintessence and Green's book
Harry potter series
Xfiles Book,
Millenium predictions

Self chosen Textbooks:

Textbooks:
Programming
Game Gems Series
AI wisdom
C++ for Gaming
Data Imaging book
OpenGL
Fortran 77
Visual Basic
HTML
VC5
3D game
C++ Sams
Math Book
Calc By stewart
Vector Calc
Calc Variations
Relativity
2 set theory
2 books on ODEs
Dynamical Systems
Math Logic
Theory of Computation(with turing on the cover)
Automata and Langauge THeory
2 cryptography(i want to buy Koblitz)
Matlab
Combinatorics
Graph Theory
wish i bought my DE books & Mathphys


Physics sciences
Computational PHysics
2 anal Mech
Thermo
Chem
Griffith QM



Life Scienes:
Sens & Perc book
Cognition
Neuropsych book 2
Biology
Alot of courseware
And some parasitology books

 

[zoobyshoe]

Neuro, what's Spiking Neurons about? Sounds like a book about seizures.

 

[neurocomp2003]

Zooby: SN-is a mathematical neuroscience textbook. It studies math models of small neuronal nets in the real system. Thus taking emphasize on the time parameter. Topics include Firing rates and patterns, spatial distribution, plasticity, Learning rules, ...can't remember much else the math is a bit advanced for me, but its a nice book.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Topics include Firing rates and patterns, spatial distribution, plasticity, Learning rules, ...

Very advanced stuff. Thanks for the description.

 

[Grogs]

Since z-component listed computer books, I guess I'll start with those:

A complete 6-Volume set of Que MCSE 2000 Prep Books
Cisco CCNA/CCDA Prep Books
An old book on DOS 6 (which I actually use from time-to-time )

Physics texts from my college days:

-General Physics (Serway)
-Astrophysics (Zeilik,et al)
-Modern Physics
-Nuclear Physics
-Classical Mechanics
-Introduction to Optics
-Principles of Lasers
-Quantum Mechanics
-Nuclear Engineering
-Chart Of The Nuclides
-CRC, 29th Ed.

Medical Books:

-CPR Guide for Health Care Providers
-EMT Basic Course Book
-EMT Intermediate Course Book
-Stedman's Medical Encyclopedia
-The Merck Manual

Less textbooky stuff:

-A Path Where No Man Thought (Carl Sagan)
-The Natural History Of The Universe
-The Audubon Field Guide To The Night Sky
-Starware
-Advanced Skywatching
-A Brief History Of Time (Hawking)
-The Fourth Dimension (Rudy Rucker)

Most of the other books stray a bit (or a lot) from Math/Science

 

[Danger]

A couple of hundred of mine are university texts on physics, industrial chemistry, organic chemistry, regular biology, cellular biology, haemotology, medicine, psychology, criminology, mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics... I can't remember what else. All are pretty old though (80's or before) because the only way that I can afford them is at Benny the Bookworm sales or library discard sales. For instance, my copy of "Biology of Microorganisms" was published in 1970, but it only cost me $3 when I bought it in the early 80's. It wouldn't likely be any good for a student, but it covers most anything that I'm likely to need. (If it doesn't, that's what I keep Moonbear around for. )

 

[Dr.Brain]

HC Verma Physics Part 1 AND 2

Irodov Problem Book On Physics

Irodov Book On Mechanics

Resnick Haliday Krane Vol I and II

IA Maron Calculus

Arihant Calculus

Hall And Knight Algebra

 

[brewnog]

What's a book?

 

[Danger]

What's a book?

It's just like the thing you're reading right now, except without the little lights and knobs.

 

[brewnog]

It's just like the thing you're reading right now, except without the little lights and knobs.

Where's the fun in that?

 

[Adrian Baker]

Modern ones

An Introduction to Astronomy - Shu (fantastic book)
A brief History of time/Universe in a nutshell - Hawking
A-Level Physics - Muncaster (Great book as a teaching aid)
Surely you're joking Mr Feynman (we must all have read that!)
QED - Feynman
Feyman's Lost Lectures

plus many others and Computer books by the shelf-full.

Old ones
However, I collect old science books from the 1800's onwards and have some superb volumes. I absolutely love reading these and getting a feel of how thought in Science has developed. Many of them are Astronomy books (my true love!) but the topics are varied.

"The story of the Heavens" - Sir RS Ball (1869) is my favourite.
A fantastic book explaining all of contemporary though on Astronomy topics. It includes a piece on Darwinian theory where the author gives a first hand account of getting hold of a Copy of Origin of Species in 1859 whilst a young undergraduate at Cambridge. The author read it in awe and suddenly realized that 'the world made sense'. Remember, this was when most of society believed the world was created in 4004BC.

Another favourite is No2 of the Penguin series 'Science News' published in 1947. The whole little paperback book is about Nuclear energy - mostly on the development of the bomb. Much of the info was of course still classified, but all the chapters were written by people working at the Los Alamos project - incuding Peierls, Anderson, Teller, Frisch and Bethe. Great stuff.

'Science for All' - Cassell and Co (1893) is another favorite. A big textbook with chapters on all aspects of Science such as Planet Vulcan, The Aether, Electromagnetic Induction, How Earthquakes are due to the shrinking Earth, botany, biology, everything! A great read.

 

[z-component]

Very interesting. Lots of good books mentioned here. I think I may need to expact my collection!

 

[Bladibla]

Advanced chemistry 1 by phillip matthews.
Advanced chemistry 2 by phillip matthews.
(these books by PM are super-duper rare. They are my precious...)

Engineering mathematics by K.A. Stroud (temporary)
Flute by james galway
A-level physics - Muncaster
Advanced organic chemistry
6 Easy pieces
QED
SF Schrodingers cat
White Dwarf

 

[fourier jr]

i want to see mathwonk's, schmoe's & Astronuc's bookshelves :shy:

Very interesting. Lots of good books mentioned here. I think I may need to expact my collection!

what books look interesting?

 

[JamesU]

Who's Mathwonk?

 

[fourier jr]

i think he's an instructor/prof somewhere

 

[Danger]

However, I collect old science books from the 1800's onwards and have some superb volumes. I absolutely love reading these and getting a feel of how thought in Science has developed.

I don't know what the hell happened to it, but I had a book that I absolutely loved called 'Practical Everyday Chemistry'. I think that it was from the late 1800's or very early 1900's, and gave formulae and excellently detailed instructions for making everything from soap through horse medicine to fireworks and electroplating. I know that I lent it to someone, but I don't know if I never got it back or if I did and it's lost in my house. Haven't seen it in about 12 years, and I really miss it. Might have to hit up Hypatia to see if she can find another copy.

 

[Gokul43201]

I don't know what you consider as 'science books'. If you count 1960's era TV repair manuals, then probably about 5% of my 1,200 or so books would qualify.

I've got one of those...it's older than me, and it's got neat cartoon pictures.

 

[Gokul43201]

I don't know what the hell happened to it, but I had a book that I absolutely loved called 'Practical Everyday Chemistry'. I think that it was from the late 1800's or very early 1900's, and gave formulae and excellently detailed instructions for making everything from soap through horse medicine to fireworks and electroplating.

Got one of those too.

 

[Danger]

I've got one of those...it's older than me, and it's got neat cartoon pictures.

I think that the oldest one I have is 'radio and television receiver circuitry and operation' by Alfred A. Ghirardi and J. Richard Johnson (no caps in the title). It was published in '51. Even the newest ones are from the early 60's, and I have 7 or 8 of them.

Got one of those too.

What's your address? I'm going to come over and rob you.

 

[Gokul43201]

What's your address? I'm going to come over and rob you.

Ha ha...you don't even have to work too hard to figure that one out (approximately).

 

[z-component]

Ha ha...you don't even have to work too hard to figure that one out (approximately).

Yes, he obviously lives at 43201 Gokul Avenue.

 

[Danger]

Yes, he obviously lives at 43201 Gokul Avenue.

Oh... okay. I always thought that he had that number because there were 43200 other Gokuls registered before him.