Suggest books that should be obligatory reading for everyone

>>6960969
kek

>>6960974
Well, they say reading the Bible is a great way to make people doubt the ancient superstition that is Christianity.

I can tip the fedora on my own.

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The TV show too.

>>6960963
Herman Hesse Siddhartha.
Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle

Everyone, regardless of profession and goals?

The Fountainhead
Starting Strength
GEB

Not even kidding. It will teach you ethics, including work ethics, how to lift and do it properly, and how to think about thinking.

Of course they are many more great books out there, but they branch out, depending on your goals.

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>>6960963
I was required to read The Hobbit by my father.

>>6960969
This is all that you need, OP. Everything else is a lie.

>>6960974
This is actually a pretty good and serious advice if you're into Philosophy, particularly Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Reading the original texts, plus some influential works written by popes and philosophers in Christianity and some Hadith and books talking about such topics and discussing them, is better than reading a textbook and what have you. If you really wanna get into it, reading the big guys in Philosophy (Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc.) will help you understand how such religions and religious ideas were shaped through the ages as well.
>inb4 fedora

>>6960984
>not Casanova's autobiography
Dropped.

>>6961068
If there's any single serious advice on this post, it's this. Dostoyevsky's works are the topnotch of Russian literature.

>my post suggesting Bible and Quran was deleted

Why? Agree with the religion that spawned them or not, I would be well justified in calling them the two most influential books written. For millennia. Honestly, their influence is all around you and everything is filled with references to them.

Or is everything even hinting at religion considered trolling?

>>6961038
> There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
-- John Rogers

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>>6960963
The difficulty would be to choose ONE book only.
Go ask to /lit/, shitstorm guaranteed.

I genuinely don't think a stem book is the right answer, you need sthg more universal.

>>6961336
Something philosophical?

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I borrowed this from the library. Is this hardcover custom made or is it the default one?

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>>6960963

>>6961354
> holy bible
> not Holy Bible
it's like you don't even love Jesus

>>6960963
H. Jerome Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach
Young and Freedman's University Physics with Modern Physics
Brown et al., Chemistry: The Central Science
Needham's Visual Complex Analysis

Seeing as how we're not limiting ourselves to specific topics:

Any economics text written be a reputable author. Ideally, you'd want this to cover both introductory micro and macro, as well as statistics.

>>6961321
I don't care about opinion

>>6961512
fuck nigger, not everyone has turboautism

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fuck the haters

>>6961452
Great tip - Keisler's book appears pretty promising.

>>6961512
Once bought one of the books and I'm peeking into on and off when taking a shit. I left it on the toilet because it used to intimidate me immensely.
It's WAY over my head. Even the way the exercises are arranged is more than clever. Dude is a maniac in a positive sense.

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>>6960963

What is the significance of 25 years?

>>6960976
double tip

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>>6960963

>>6962031
I'm not 25 yet

>>6962122
Is homosexuality still classified as a mental disorder?

>>6962146
no, and that is a shame, that means you won't get payed anymore if you turn out to act gay.

but if you like, you can always be labelled with some other illness. Most of them will fit your profile, it's really up to the effort of the psychologist to ask the right questions so you can fit anything you please.

A super chem+physics+math book.

>>6962193
which would be......

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:^)

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>>6960963
every scientist loves this

>>6961704
>defiling beautifully typeset knuth books by putting them in the same room that you shit and piss in
Leave now.

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If you ever want to be anything more in life than a infantile leftist SJW

>>6962243
I like it because it puts the farting in a submissive role. Everyone else wants to be dominated and farted on forcefully, but to be honest I prefer when they can't control the farts and are embarrassed by them. It hard to find that kind of material these days, though.

Godel, Escher, Bach
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Book of Five Rings
Flatland
How to Win Friends and Influence People
1984 (haven't read Brave New World yet but probably that too)

Most people dont write to themselves. So yeah, I would say write a notebook to yourself then read it. Your own fucking book.

Besides this, a undergrad physics book.

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>>6961056
Good job anon's dad!

My choice is this. Honestly one of the emotionally deepest and varied books I have ever read.

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>>6961519
I sympathize, anon :\ .

>>6961512
your autism is terminal

>>6962344
>computer science is for people too stupid for real math/science! hehe i am smart physics major xD bazinga
>books on computer science are too hard! only people with autism could enjoy this

kill yourself.

>>6962348
he didn't say it was difficult reading

>>6961344
yes.
as my physics professor in undergrad always said
>a teachers job is not to teach
>that is a general misnomer
>a teachers job is to inspire
>learning will come naturally to those who yearn for it

>>6962372
then why are they called teachers and not inspire-ers???

>>6961298
>>6961519
>The year of our Lord MMXIV
>not being le ebin dawkin atheist

>>6961637
>The year of our Lord MMXIV
>Nietzsche
Fuck off, kid. The dude's work is only considered great by leddit tier fedora tippers and 16 years old Facebook teens.

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>>6960963
>all these meme books
Okay, it's my turn to post one!

>>6962405
>Not accepting Thus Spoke not a literary classic
>Doesn't realize the people who enjoy Nietzsche purely because of his polemic nature completely misunderstand him

Sure he's popular with the edgy but it doesn't stop the works being great.

>>6962372

and your physics prof was one of those fucking stuck up arrogant academic arseholes who should not be given a teaching position. Fuck your inspiration, teach the crap the students have to know, thats what he is getting paid to do. Fucking arseholes like that make life a misery for most students.

>>6961519

Yeah, nah, fuck you. The bible is full of crap, blantant untruths, massive contradictions rambling bullshit and some snippets of humane common sense attributed to Jesus. Its also as boring as fuck to read.

Havent read the sand nigger version but i would guess it is much the same line of archaic hogwash.

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>>6962035

my only regret is that I have but one tip to give

>>6962122
>5
>not 4-TR

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I know this sort of Sci Fi isn't for everyone, but people should at least give it a shot. I love it.

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>>6961038
>The Fountainhead
>ethics

Riiiight

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>>6962473

A friggin 3+ megabyte jpg??

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>>6960963

"The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus", or
alternatively, "On the Shortness of Life" (and other essays/letters) by Seneca.

>pic related

>>6962480
Yea oops... Took a photo with my phone then spent ten or so minutes trying to get it to my laptop. Forgot about the internet

>>6962480
>>6962473
I got these in my reading backlog. Should I read them after finishing up my current read?

>>6962489
Yus!
Asimov and that sort of sci fi like Arthur C Clarke, Silverberg, etc seams to only really appeal to people interested in stem. Like you dont hear about many art majors enjoying it

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>>6960984

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>>6962348
This board is packed full of pseudo intellectual shits who think they're the next Steven Hawking because they can integrate equations. You shouldn't let them get to you

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It's not very rigorous or well-structured, but it opened my eyes to some aspects of human interaction.

>>6962447
Sure, his work is a classic and pretty great, but you'd have to be very retarded to consider his work of any value but helping in shaping Zionist ideologies after his sister decided Hitler was a bless. Other than that, not much but a lot of talk about not half bad music and some oldschool emo shit.

>>6962434
Spivak indeed is a meme, but the book in it self still has a great value and is of enormous use for people wanting to approach calculus in a purely mathematical fashion.

It's funny because the posturing ITT makes you all look like the Negroes in one of those ghetto neighbourhoods I see on cops sometimes [i.e. 100% of the time I happen to watch cops].

>>6962434
SICP is actually god tier.

>>6961704
Yeah, you really have to appreciate the sheer rigour and density of knuth. If you can work through even half of it and SICP, you'll be a pretty damn good programmer.

Food Of The Gods
by Terence McKenna

>>6962644
/pol/ don't you have a cuckold party to attend?

>>6962549
>Sure, his work is a classic and pretty great, but you'd have to be very retarded to consider his work of any value but helping in shaping Zionist ideologies after his sister decided Hitler was a bless.

As a stylistic how to on polemics and by sheer influence his work has enormous value.

Your ignorance is showing. His sister was antisemitic and used his ideologies and unpublished works to put forward her beliefs. Even a basic comprehension of his work demonstrates he would have found Nazi'ism deplorable.

>>6962695
I do know his sister changed his work and that he didn't into Nazism. That's why I included his sister and how she thought Hitler was a bless ("after his sister decided Hitler was a bless"). Looks like you're the one in need of English lessons to boost your comprehension capabilities.

>>6962649
>implying doing arithmetic counts as math

>>6962711
>implying it doesn't

>>6961383
The God Delusion is pretty weak but that book is great popsci

>>6962707

Fuck you. How's about that?

>>6962749
Good, I suppose.

>>6962869
>>6962207

YES! Still got mine!

>>6962201
I havent read that but Ive seen the Mars Direct doc

very inspirational

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>>6962122
My nigga

>>6962405
Nietzsche is great. The only reason to hate on Nietzsche is mediocrity.

The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead

-James Waldroop Ph.D.

>>6962275
Are you me?

>>6962146
It should be

>>6962453
If you want someone to just feed you information for an hour and a half, you're wasting your fucking money. You need to be taught how to think.

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>>6960963
This one has worked wonders for me ;)

>>6964154
>double your dating
>2 times something really really small is still something really really small
not worth the investment imo

>>6964154
2*0=0>>6964154

The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. This essay helped me deal with a lot of problems when I was younger. Namely how to accept the daily monotony that is life and smile doing it.

>>6960963
>everyone is always on Spivak's dick
Aren't there more detailed books or is it just me?

>>6960963
I see a lot of commotion about this book around here.

I'm already done with the calculi, but we used this book, which is definitely oriented more towards engineering and physics majors, and takes the "instructions manual" sort of approach to teaching math.

(I actual took calc at two different schools which used two different books, but the previous one was extremely similar to this one).

Do you folks think I'd stand to gain anything other than reinforcing things I've already learned by working through this book front to back? I found a copy online, and from just glancing at a couple of sections, I can see that it takes a much more in depth approach to explaining the concepts. Just not sure if I want to invest time into sinking my teeth into this sucker, considering that I'm done with calc.

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>>6961383
I read that in high school. It was mostly a single paragraph's worth of information (when you consider intuition) stretched into 200 needlessly verbose pages. Can not recommend; bored the shit out of me.

>>6962549
He influenced the cultural movement called modernism, and also film noir. His work has had great influence aswell on philosophy, he found meaning in nihilism which was very important in his time. Honestly have you even read his books when you have this attitude? Doesn't seem likely, and no it's not becasue you have a different opinion, but that you're extremely uninformed.

>>6961030
>Herman Hesse Siddhartha
got that from amazon 2 days ago

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most of these

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>>6965927
Excellent book. This part always stuck with me.

>>6960963
Calculus isnt very useful for most people. Not everyone needs to do power series and multi variable integration

>>6966043
Most people don't need to tell you what the main themes in Hamlet were, or point to Afghanistan on a map, or write something that's more than a page long.
Guess what? Existence as "most people" fucking sucks. Why fucking educate them at all? Teach them to read and write, then smack their dumb asses down in a job at Denny's for the rest of their life.

Flatlanders

>>6964495
If you want a refresher I would buy Marsden's book "Vector Calculus". I used it for my vector calculus class, and while at the beginning I thought that the presentation of the material was a bit dry, if you are motivated, you can find that it is a well written book. As well, it's better if you are a math major, as the exercises often consists of proofs of corollaries/theorems derived from the major results presented in the book (although you always get some computation problems).

>>6966113
Hamlet, in a nutshell:
>Hamlet wants dat mom pussy
>Daddy Hamlet's gone. Ready for action.
>No, Uncle got his dick in before I could
>If I pretend I'm crazy, mom will suck my dick?
>Random play within a play. Woah2meta
>Ophelia, bitch plz an hero
>If I can't have momcest, no one can.
>Everyone dies except Horatio and that one guy trying to take over Denmark that no one cares about for some reason.
>"Goodnight sweet prince"

Why do we read this again?

>>6966176
Don't forget Hamlet being a tremendous pussy, or Ophelia's dad being a conniving old fart. And all the sex jokes.

>Why do we read this again?
Because it's a goddamn masterpiece. Watch a good Hamlet production and tell me I'm wrong.

>>6966176
you left out
>randomly send 2 guys to their deaths for carrying a letter they didn't even read that said to kill you

>>6962496
Man I need to get to this. I'm working my way through the big SciFi books

>>6964154
but if everyone reads it then the chicks will no were onto them :O

>>6961068
eh i thought it was pretty dry, i liked dostoyevsky's other works better
as pleb as it may seem, letters from the underground intrigued me more

>>6962207
this was my only christmas present when i was 15 and i loved it

>>6962482

Have you actually read this?

>>6960963
Principia Mathematica

>>6966176
Incest by de Sade
Justine by de Sade
Lolita by Nabokov
The Theban Plays series (Most notable is Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles
The Divine Comedy series (Most notable is Inferno) by Alighieri
War and Peace by Tolstoy
King Lear by Shakespeare
Paradise series (Most notable is Paradise Lost) by Milton
City of God by Augustine of Hippo
Ninety-Five Theses by Luther
Civil Disobedience (A 28 pages essay) by Thoreau
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Almost all of his works)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Hugo
The D'Artagnan Romances series (Most notable is The Three Musketeers and The Man in The Iron Mask) by Dumas
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky (Pretty much all of his work)

I have much more shit of value that would make literature class in school a bit more endurable. If only they gave you the good works and not the absolute horrible satire that is held so dear to the heart of retards (See: Romeo and Juliet), maybe taking literature would have been excusable.

>>6968229
I liked that one as well. The 'darker' works of his seem to appeal to me more than the bulk of his popular work.

>>6968366
The Principia Mathematica by Newton and Leibniz or the Principia Mathematica by Whitehead and Russell. Both are godly, to be honest, but I preferred Russell's work as it's unusual and way less known (I'm sorry for my /mu/tant preference).

someone should put these books on a list as reccomended /sci/ readings

>>6968643
Most of these are works in literature, not science or mathematics. I think /lit/ would be happier to 'showcase' them.

What about GEB?

>>6968572
>Incest by de Sade
>Justine by de Sade
>Lolita by Nabokov
>The Theban Plays series (Most notable is Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles
>The Divine Comedy series (Most notable is Inferno) by Alighieri
>War and Peace by Tolstoy
>King Lear by Shakespeare
>Paradise series (Most notable is Paradise Lost) by Milton
>City of God by Augustine of Hippo
>Ninety-Five Theses by Luther
>Civil Disobedience (A 28 pages essay) by Thoreau
>Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (Almost all of his works)
>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Hugo
>The D'Artagnan Romances series (Most notable is The Three Musketeers and The Man in The Iron Mask) by Dumas
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
>Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
>The Idiot by Dostoyevsky (Pretty much all of his work)
youre alright with me anon

>>6968984
You seem like a pretty cool dude too, anon.

>>6968352

Of course. Provided you understand the stoic concept of God i.e. it's congruence with nature, or at least Marcus' understanding and interpretation of this, it proves to be an interesting and overall pragmatic framework of mind from which to work from.

>>6962243

Chomsky is a fan of the book. It's not left/right.

It is anti-SJW though

>>6968572
Fuck da PM's. Hardy's where it's at.

>>6970939
He's the dude that brought Ramanujen to Cambridge, isn't he? Nonetheless, pretty cool guy, he also made a review on Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica. Here's the review if anyone's interested: http://www.metafilter.com/107360/GH-Hardy-reviews-Principia-Mathematica (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ns441/files/hardy-principia.pdf).

>>6962243
That is outdated as fuck and has nothing to do with modern economics. It is to economics what alchemy is to chemistry.
>>6970895
Chomsky is a retard. No wonder he would use a book that was overdue a hundred years ago.

>>6971502
>An old book is an old book and it is of no value
That's like saying Newton's Principia or Archimedes's Palimpsest (The method, etc.) is of no value to modern mathematics.

>inb4 economics are inconsistent
Still doesn't mean reading Marx's Communist Manifesto or Hobbes's Leviathan is a waste of time and is just bullshit.

Anything about Evolutionary biology. Reading Buss' work changed how I look at the world; but I guess Pinker, R. Wright, Tooby, Dawkins, N Wade, etc. would do too.

>>6971502
On the contrary, a lot of modern economics is to The Wealth of Nations what alchemy is to Chemistry.

The Wealth of Nations is the founding of modern economics that explains some pretty basic rules; todays gospels that debt is good, spending is endless, and everything can be deteremined by government, is where the mystical nonsense lies.

>>6971517
Communist Manifesto doesn't even try to be intellectual. It's just propaganda to rile up the working class.

Das Kapital tries to be academic though it is still shit-tier and has no relevance to modern economics. Many of its ideas are so laughably wrong (e.g. labor theory of value) a 13-year-old could've been the author.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1083.The_Most_Influential_Books_in_History
According to the public, the most influential book is Darwin's Origin of Species, followed by the Holy Bible and the Quran, then Marx's Communist Manifesto, Plato's Republic and Orwell's 1984.

The only work of Augustine to appear is his Confession, ranked 73rd, and nothing else in the top 100. Paradise Lost by Milton ranked 44th. Did I mention that the only work of Plato that made it there was his Republic? Nonetheless, Hobbes's Leviathan was 82nd, Dante's Divine Comedy was 25th, followed by Hitler's Mein Kampf, Summa Theologica ranked 81st, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses ranked 13th, and, apparently, the most influential work of Aristotle is his poems, ranked 64th, followed by nothing else in the top 100.

Now if this list represents what the public actually thinks, then we're pretty much fucked. Over half of what's on the list are novels/stories, more than half of which are 18th-20th century novels/stories.

>>6971523
Your point? I merely said that it was of great value and influence, of which it was, and that it's worth a quick read.

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>>6962193
P. W. Atkins, Physicsl Chemistry

>>6961705
Bought this book. It's actually very good

>>6962473
+1.
I read all 7 Foundation books. The original trilogy is hard to surpass.

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the da vinci code

>>6961030
I think you mean everything pkd wrote

This thread has really been useless thusfar.

Some people suggest books, others in turn bash them. There is no "definitive /sci/ reading list". Some people like reading Dante, Virgil or Milton, other think it's outdated religious bullcrap. Rand and Nietzsche are loved and hated with great passion.

The only books to which there is some consensus are:

GEB
Flatlanders
Asimov - Foundation
Brothers Karamazov
1984
SICP
Plato - Republic

>>6971588
most of the elementary science texts of the 50-70's are good. They were written when "average" people just went into the trades with a HS diploma and still made a good living, so the only ones getting into STEM were the people with the aptitude and passion for it. Its why that book reads like a book, instead of plug n chug stereo instructions.

>>6961056
its literally a childrens book dude

>>6965950
stop posting this

>>6960963
There are none.
/thread

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins

>>6972980
>implying children's books can't be legitimately good
how pretentious can you be?

What is this

>>6973033
Life

>>697283
All of those suck. The only ones that aren't storybooks are SICP and GEB. GEB is shit, it has an "allegory" between each chapter and takes forever to say anything profound. SICP isn't as bad, it's probably the only one that doesn't belong on your list of shit books not to read, but it's also not /sci/. It doesn't teach a true lambda calculus and focuses on developing programmer skills.

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Machiavelli

>>6961452
Keislers infinitesimal calculus is definitely some cool shit. I think the foundations book he wrote is good too. Robinson's original book is also good but much deeper and much more difficult (it also requires a lot more background).

The only other one I've read was the central science which seemed like a pretty standard chemistry text, which is to say I don't remember anything amazing about it.

The rest of this thread minus a few exceptions seems to be mostly trolls, /lit/, /pol/, and /g/.

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The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

ITT: EDGY FEDORA FAGGOTS TRY TO OUTHIPSTER EACH OTHER!

>>6973246
ass

>books everyone should read
>bunch of math books
what.

Probably The Richest Man in Babylon. It's sound financial advice, and that is something EVERYONE needs.

>>6973266
STFU and GTFO, faggot

>>6961025
>this
Actually though I made my whole family watch it and it change the dynamic of our relationships for the better. Just made communication more fluid. Really great stuff the way it undermines religion as a spiritual experience

Stanislaw Lem is the ultimate /sci/ author.

>>6960963
>calculus
>not analysis
Pleb. Also, it's not like everyone needs to know calculus.
Anyway, everyone should learn formal logic.

To become acquainted with at least some of the major works of western literature:
Plato
Old Testament (KJV)
The Odyssey
Brothers Karamazov
Shakespeare's major plays (Hamlet, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth at the very least)
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
Faust
In Search of Lost Time (if you have time it's worth it)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Red and the Black

Science (harder to pick for these because textbooks usually suffice):
Euclid's Elements
Spivak's Calculus
Physics textbook (maybe Feynman, idk)
On the Origin of Species
Einstein's Relativity

Popular science:
What is Life?
One, Two Three... Infinity
Silent Spring
The Selfish Gene
The Whole Shebang

>>6972832
>implying >>6968572's shit isn't all that you need
Pleb.

>>6973353
You sound like a cool guy, anon.

>>6973347
Outside of mathematics (e.g. physics) everyone still does math in the old 1700s way with infinitesimals. That said Kreisler's calculus is better for this than Spivak since it uses infinitesimals formally via the hyper reals.

>>6973353
These are terrible recommendations. Seriously anon, Euclid's elements in 2014? Did you entirely miss the all the breakthroughs in geometry of the 1800s?

>>6960963

I don't understand, does /sci have a soft spot for calculus or is it just that book?

>>6973666
Spivak is a memebook in Math.

>>6973666
>soft spot for calculus
Made me chuckle.
It's just the highest math some people here have ever taken.

>>6973666
It's a proof based approach to calculus. As most /sci/ posters who actually post on topic are math majors, a proof based approach to calculus distinguishes them from their peers at university. So when you tell people to read Spivak, what you're really saying is "you should be like me."

>>6973672

Oh, so kinda like TAOCP? Everybody recommends it but nobody really reads it.

>>6973676
Well no, people actually read Spivak but they're just being pretentious. The book doesn't cover most of the calculus tricks and techniques that an actual course covers and it's not quite as formal as a proper analysis text. Mostly what I see are students that haven't taken analysis and want a slightly more rigorous intro to calculus or students who got blown the fuck out by all the computations in Stewart and want a book that won't make them feel like a failure.

>>6973676
Apostol is more comprehensive and formal than Spivak.

>>6973676
People know, whether they read it or don't, that Spivak and Apostol are the best, most rigorous books on calculus. I read Apostol.

Since it's just such a basic topic, it's easy to separate good and bad, easy and hard, intuitive and rigorous. It's simple, really.

>>6973347
Mah nigger.

>>6973700
>>6973705
The whole integration before differentiation in Apostol was kind of weird.

>>6964410
maybe the struggle is enough to fill a man's heart

>>6968572
Divine Comedy is long as fuck and there's no way you'd be able to hold the average teen's attention with it.

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I am a robot!

>>6974752
Inferno is more than enough for teens. I don't expect your average normalfag to read the whole of Paradise, The Theban Plays, The Divine Comedy and The D'Artagnan Romances. I merely expect them to read the most popular works and get a feel for it.

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>>6968738

>>6974752
>he doesn't know about those disney divine comedy comics
/co/ even storytimed it

>>6975183
>le average normalfag won't do it. That means if I do it I must be le above average smartfag
Those poems are shit.

The Little Prince

>>6975372
Who the fuck said anything about being smart. Reading non-educational literature (Pretty much everything that is not a textbook) simply makes you a /lit/fag that is a bit more well informed than your average San Francisco tech hippie.

You must be feeling really insecure to ridicule people for such reasons.

>>6962657
Don't you have some so-called intellectual dickslinging to do oh wait you were already i'll let you get back to it.

>>6975406
>reading storybooks makes you better than others.

lol'd
Citation needed

>>6961375

Mine has silver text on a navy blue cover.

>>6961375
>>6976720

Also, this is a great book. It's what they use for Math 1a (the very first freshman class) at Caltech.

>>6975424
>>6975511
lol, this anon and his edgy teen books

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>>6960963

>>6960984
Kek

>>6975511
Good book, short and can be read quickly.

>>6962473

>having your face and name all over the cover of your book

aaaand DROPPED

>>6960963
I think everyone should definitely read the bible.
At least read through ecclesiastes.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&version=KJV

>>6973353
>euclid's elements
that's just a waste of time

Math:
Munkres - Topology

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>>6961068
Just about finished reading it. I somewhat regret reading this book because it raises a huge lot of questions (900 pages worth of the shit). Very deep and kinda traumatizing :/

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>>6966139
My nigga.

>>6968572
>Sade
>Nabokov
why ?

>>6965950
> everyone before they turn 25
>Nuclear engineering and fluid mechanics
Yeah, everybody can read that and understand it.

>>6973674
Is it good though

Principia discordia

>>6976909
> war and peace
> edgy

m8

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>21st century
>still reading books

street smarts > book smarts

prove me wrong

>>6976909
>lel epic edgy meme
Can't wait for this shit to die and normies to go back to reddit or facebook or whatever

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>>6978932

>>6978934
hehe ebic meme :^) i bet he wears bedora too :DDDDD

>>6974787
Explain yourself

>>6978428
I can't honestly say why or explain to you. It's just how it is, anon.

>>6978819
>implying more people shouldn't know more about nuclear engineering/nuclear power

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

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there was a book on Bell labs that I personally found insightful, also a book called "Branded Nation"

>>6960963

related question, what's the first history book you'd recommend to someone?

>>6981145
Newton's Principia

More seriously? Will Durant

ITT lulz, shitposting, and a /pol/ user taking it all seriously.

>>6981137
>there was a book on Bell labs that I personally found insightful
name?

>>6981561

I think it was this one

http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

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>>6978921

What if it's a book on street smarts?

>>6978938
wow many spurdo much finland

>>6960984
ha ha no

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Thisssssssssss

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I guess you guys don't like Larson-Edwards