Technical books
Profound
- Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- Causation, Prediction, and Search
- The Nature of Computation
- Statistical Rethinking
- Fooled by Randomness
- A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
Visuals
- Complex Analysis
- Group Theory
- Naive Lie Theory
- Galois’ Dream
- Linear Algebra
- Calculus
- 3b1b
- Grad, Div, Curl and all that by H. M. Schey
- Analysis by Its History
- Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View
- Proofs without words
- A Topological Picturebook
- Topology Illustrated
- A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds
- Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts
- Geometry and the Imagination
- A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry by Marcel Berger.
- A Singular Mathematical Promenade
- Odds & Ends: Introducing Probability & Decision with a Visual Emphasis
- Interactive Linear Algebra
- Neal’s Intro to Causal Inference
- https://socviz.co/
Friendly / semitechnical
- Calculus Made Easy
- Full Frontal Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach
- Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
- Street-Fighting Mathematics
- Reuben Hersh
- Proofs and Refutations
- Number Theory, by Edit Gyarmati, Paul Turán, and Róbert Freud
- The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, and Chaim Goodman- Strauss
- Origami Journey: Into the Fascinating World of Geometric Origami, by Dasa Severova.
- Crocheting Adventures With Hyperbolic Planes, by Daina Taimina.
- Prime Climb, by Dan Finkel and friends
- An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √−1, by Paul Nahin
- A Topological Picturebook, by George Francis
- Mathematical Snapshots, by Hugo Steinhaus
- Fads and Fallacies (1957, originally 1952)
- Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
- Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
- Can one hear the shape of a drum, by Mark Kac
- How long is the coast of Britain, by Benoit Mandelbrot.
- Eric Temple Bell’s Men of Mathematics
- Mathematics Made Difficult
CS
- Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing
Machine learning
- The Sciences of the Artificial
- Grokking Deep Learning, Trask
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common LISP
- Nielsen on Neural Networks
- Bayesian optimisation, Garnett
- Principles of Deep Learning Theory
- AIMA
Tools
- Eloquent JS
- why’s poignant guide to ruby
- LYA Haskell
- Functional Programming in Scala
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- Git
Terse
- Halmos, Naive Set Theory
- Jaenich, Topology
- Green, Sequences & Series
- Baker Concise Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
- Cox, The Algebra of Probable Inference
- Conway, the Sensual Quadratic Form
- Surreal Numbers, Knuth
- Serre, A course in Arithmetic
- Samuel, Algebraic theory of numbers
- Artin - The Gamma Function
- Artin - Galois Theory
- Cassels - Lectures on Elliptic Curves
- Adams, Infinite loop spaces
- ATIYAH MACDONALD. Introduction to Commutative Algebra
- Milnor, Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint
- Humphreys “Introduction to Lie Algebra and Representation Theory”
- Cauchy Schwartz master class by j. Michal steele
- Dirac’s “lectures on QM”.
- E. Landau: Foundations of Analysis,
- B. Mendelson: Intro to topology,
- A Mathematical Gift (I, II, III),
- Prolegomena to a Middlebrow Arithmetic of Curves of Genus 2
- Social Choice and Individual Values
Soc
- McElreath again
- The Effect
- Filthy Lucre
TODO
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- [The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before the Quantum](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extension-man)
- [Nature of Code](https://amzn.to/33kgY1m)
- [Introduction to the Mathematics of Computer Graphics](https://bookstore.ams.org/clrm-51)
- [Multiagent systems](https://amzn.to/36t5oD5)
- Stein Analysis
- An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory
- Barak and Sanjeev Arora: Comp Complexity
- The Chemical History of a Candle
- The Character of Physical Law
- Mathematical Understanding of Nature
- Proofs from the Book
- Problems for children from 5 to 15
- Mathematical Omnibus