Alright /sci/entists, what are your recommended readings outside of textbooks for all scientists?
Mine:
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On the Origin of Species
Euclid's Elements
The Feynman Lectures
Cosmos
The Double Helix
On The Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
What is life?
That book for autistic people that is always in the lower right hand corner of those meme list images.
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Yes that one, lol
I say this as a Math person who loves the Classics, but reading old Math books isn't particularly useful unless you're specifically interested in the history of Mathematics. It's nice to gloss over Elements to see what kind of concepts the Greeks did and didn't have (in particular how much verbal contortion they had to do because they never worked with purely-abstracted numbers), but it won't teach you math particularly efficiently. It's not like history or philosophy where the way things are said are far more important than what they're talking about; proofs are proofs. Reading old math books is just depriving yourself as modern shortcuts towards understanding.