Books
I gave up midway on A feast for Crows and started reading Sundiver by David Brin. Time to make a trip down to the Library to pick up some books for the winter break. Any recommendations?
I gave up midway on A feast for Crows and started reading Sundiver by David Brin. Time to make a trip down to the Library to pick up some books for the winter break. Any recommendations?
November 30th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Anything by Milnor, or Mumford
November 30th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
Yeah right!! I think now you will have to change it to anything by Shreve or Bjork.
December 1st, 2005 at 11:39 am
Yeah, the dark dower series by stephen king.
December 1st, 2005 at 12:02 pm
A sampling of (entertaining and essential) math related books
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(you know you can always ask me about non-math books
The Anthropology of Numbers
by Thomas Crump
Littlewood’s Miscellany
by B. Bollobas (Editor)
Indiscrete Thoughts
by Gian-Carlo Rota, Fabrizio Palombi
Discrete Thoughts: Essays in Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy.
by Kac M., Rota G.-C. and Schwartz J.
Proofs and Refutations : The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
by Imre Lakatos (Editor), E. Zahar (Editor), J. Worrall (Editor)
Proofs From the Book
by Martin Aigner, Gunter M. Ziegler
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
by Timothy Gowers
Alon A., Bourgain J., Connes A., Gromov M. and Milman V. (eds.) 2000, GAFA 2000 Visions in Mathematics: Towards 2000, Boston: Birkhäuser.
thats enough for now ….. have fun
December 1st, 2005 at 3:09 pm
Right, as promised, here we go.
In no particular order and happily mixing fiction, science-fiction and non-fiction
Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
R.A.Wilson, The Illumninatus Trilogy, Prometheus Rising
Jeff Noon, Vurt
William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
P.K.Dick, The Valis Trilogy
Christopher Priest, The Glamour
Dan Simmons, The Hyperion quadrilogy
Pauwels & Bergier, Morning of the Magicians
Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
Greg Egan, Diaspora
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Right, these should keep you going for some time
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:50 am
Thanks for recommendations. I have already read a few of them like Proofs from the Book and two of the Hyperion books (I didn’t know there were more). I am going to put the others on my list….
December 10th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
Curiously, why did you give up on “A Feast for Crows”? I haven’t started it yet, and the reviews weren’t looking good. But I was still hoping it was worth it, since I loved the series so far.
December 10th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
I agree, the start of the series was excellent, but I quickly got tired of “A Feast for Crows” focussing on Jamie and Cersei so much. There was no mention of any of the interesting characters (like danerys for example) and I know I am going to have to wait a couple of years for the next book and then another 20 years before he finishes the series. Im my experience fantasy series that go on for too long (e.g. Dune, Wheel of Time) end up being crap and I have an inkling that this series is going to end up this way too… I hope it is not true..
Perhaps after GRR Martin finishes this series (in 20 years maybe?) I will finish reading the books…