lkozma

Book recommendations

12 books

lkozma · Aug 2, 2010
Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman.
lkozma · Dec 27, 2011
"Black Swan" by N.N.Taleb. Maybe overhyped and at times annoying and pompous, but extremely insightful nevertheless.
lkozma · Jun 19, 2009
MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, etc.
lkozma · Aug 2, 2010
N. Taleb: Fooled by randomness.
lkozma · Aug 2, 2010
D. MacKay: Sustainable energy - without the hot air.
lkozma · Dec 27, 2011
"The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class" by J.M.Steele. A guided tour of mathematical inequalities. Very entertaining and readable (for a math book) and extremely well written.
lkozma · Aug 2, 2010
M. Karinthy: A journey round my skull.
lkozma · Jun 19, 2009
Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis is a good statistical intro
lkozma · Dec 27, 2011
"Indiscrete Thoughts" by G-C.Rota. Irreverent anecdotes about mathematicians.
lkozma · Dec 27, 2011
"Salonica, City of Ghosts" by M.Mazower. Tells the history of Thessaloniki, informative, entertaining, at times nostalgic.
lkozma · Jun 19, 2009
You could read Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra books
lkozma · Jun 19, 2009
maybe Freedman's Statistical models