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This reader’s recommendations and supporting excerpts from the sampled discussions.

9 books

sb · Dec 25, 2012
Based on the previous book and my fond memories of reading "How to Solve it"
sb · Dec 25, 2012
From HN advice in previous years I read The Tibetan Book on Living and Dying, which I can heartily recommend, too.
sb · Oct 8, 2009
one of the best texts around is "the art of prolog, advanced programming techniques" 2nd edition
sb · Sep 1, 2009
I second "Programming Language Pragmatics" it is a fantastic book
sb · Dec 25, 2012
I have started reading this only recently and have to say that I find the approach and idea excellent.
sb · Dec 25, 2012
This is one of my favorite books concerning the "build-up" of mathematics
sb · Dec 25, 2012
AFAICT now it's another gem from Polya.
sb · Dec 25, 2012
the introduction with Pascal's triangle and some of Polya' legendary problem solving insights (paraphrased from my memory: "you are on to something once you find a pattern") are definitely highlights in this book.
sb · Oct 8, 2009
there is another recommendable text "programming prolog for artifical intelligence" by ivan bratko