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1 #+title: Prof. Sussman's Reading List
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2 #+author: Gerald Sussman (compiled by Robert McIntyre)
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+description: Professor Sussman's reading recommendations
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5 #+keywords: Sussman physics computer science reading list MIT
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8 #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both
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10 #+BEGIN_QUOTE
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11 Serving as a TA for Professor Sussman will get you three things: great
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12 advice, spectacular reading recommendations, and lots of high quality
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13 tea. I can't share the advice or the tea, but I can compile a reading
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14 list. Some of the materials on this list represent research paths that
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15 lead to unexplored territory. Some are textbooks that express concepts
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16 so clearly they will change your life and make you weep for joy. I
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17 hope that you will get something interesting out of this reading list,
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18 wherever you are in life -- there's stuff I wish I knew about in
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19 middle school, and there are things I can't wait to read this
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20 summer. Enjoy! (and send corrections to reading-list@aurellem.org!)
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21
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22 --Robert McIntyre
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23 #+END_QUOTE
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25 # If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
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26 # that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
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27 # page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). (In Progress!)
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28
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29 * Some /Real/ High school Reading
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30
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31 - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/physics/cosmology-relativity-and-gravitation/first-course-general-relativity][A First Course in General Relativity]], by Bernard F Schultz
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32 - ISBN: 9780521277037
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33 - Readable, not too heavy.
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34 - Minimal dependencies
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35 - You can just go through it slowly and understand at each step.
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36
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37 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Space-Special-Relativity-David-Mermin/dp/0881334200][Space and Time in Special Relativity]], by [[http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/][David Mermin]]
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38 - ISBN: 0881334200
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39 - HIGHLY accessible.
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40 - This will change your life.
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41 - You will understand special relativity!
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42
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43 - [[http://www.feynmanlectures.info/][The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]
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44 - Highly understandable
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45 - Just go there and learn something already!
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46
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47 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]], by [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/][Marvin Minsky]]
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48 - A trove of wonderful ideas!
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49
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50 - [[http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/discountpromotion/?site_locale=en_US&code=L3QCSD][Quantum Computing since Democritus]], by [[http://www.scottaaronson.com/][Scott Aaronson]]
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51 - Everything you might want to know about computing with QM, with
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52 a philosophical outlook.
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53
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54 - Bible, Talmud, Koran
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55 - Read them whether or not you believe them!
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56 - Be sure to read between the lines, and you can discover what
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57 people were actually thinking back then.
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58 - Very interesting documents!
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59 - [[http://jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm][Bava Metzia 59b]] is an interesting story!
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60
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61 * Representative Student Theses
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62
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64 These are students where I played a large role in their
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65 education. Many of them represent compelling research directions
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66 that desperately need to be extended by the next generation of
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67 researchers! As Minsky says, if you want to do something really new,
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68 go back to points in the past where there was a neat idea that never
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69 really caught on, and follow the path of that idea to see where it
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70 leads. A comprehensive list of all my student's works can be found
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71 at my [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/gjs.html][homepage]].
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72
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73 --Prof. Sussman
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74 #+END_QUOTE
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76 In particular, here's two great ideas that seem extremely promising
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77 and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
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78 to get them working!
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79
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80 - Using chaos to get unlimited measurement precision!
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81 - In chaotic systems, states that are near to each other at one
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82 point in time become exponentially farther apart from each other
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83 as the system evolves in time. Therefore, you might be able to
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84 attain arbitrary precision by waiting for the system to evolve,
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85 and then determining what initial state must have led to the
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86 later state.
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87 - Two notable papers:
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88 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
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89 Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
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90 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Parameter Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
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91 - No one put enough effort into seeing if it really worked.
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92 - Seems to allow for almost unlimited precision in measurement.
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93 - Initial results look very promising, with a =13 order of
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94 magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
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95 experiment.
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96 - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
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97 you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. In
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98 particular, you could measure the Gravitational Constant with
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99 unprecedented accuracy.
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101 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
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102 - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
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103 - Achieves a 10 fold increase in strength by actively eliminating
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104 vibrational modes.
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105 - Such a good idea; It's cool, short -- great!
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106 - Better quality, color version of the thesis [[http://www.berlinplace.com/aitr-1590.pdf][here]].
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107 - No one's followed up on it!
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108
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109 In historical order:
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111 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6888][A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge]]
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112 - By [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/][Scott Elliot Fahlman]], 1977
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113 - Basically the reason that the Connection Machine was later
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114 invented.
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116 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5679][The Connection Machine]]
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117 - By [[http://longnow.org/people/board/danny0/][Danny Hillis]], 1981
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118 - Beautiful thesis, though it doesn't tell you anything you can
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119 really /do/ today.
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120
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121 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6948][A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design]]
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122 - By Andrew Ressler, 1984
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123 - If you're an Electrical Engineering person.
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124
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125 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6959][ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics]]
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126 - By [[http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dmcallester/][David A. McAllester]], 1987
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127 - Very hard, very deep.
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128 - You will need to know a lot of Math.
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129
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130 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7025][KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical
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131 Experiments Using Geometrical Methods]]
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132 - By Kenneth Man-Kam Yip, 1989
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133 - Coolest PhD thesis ever!
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134 - Solve problems using graphs.
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135 - So cool!
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136
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137 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80483][Botanical Computing: A Developmental Approach to Generating
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138 Interconnect Topologies on an Amorphous Computer]]
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139 - By [[http://sta.uwi.edu/pelican/60under60/dcoore.asp][Daniel Coore]], 1999
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140 - Interesting to programmers especially.
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141
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142 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86667][Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape using
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143 Biologically-inspired Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics]]
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144 By [[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/][Radhika Nagpal]], 2001
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145 - Also Interesting to programmers.
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146
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147 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8228][Cellular Computation and Communications using Engineered Genetic
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148 Regulatory Networks]]
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149 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rweiss/][Ron Weiss]], 2001
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150 - Third in a line of bio / amorphous computing papers which should
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151 be highly interesting to programmers.
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152
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153 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6082][An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications]]
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154 - By Jake Beal, 2001
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155 - Seems like it could be "the right thing" for how modules in the
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156 brain learn to talk to each other.
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157 - Someone should expand on this work!
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158 - Also a PhD thesis from Beal on this: [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38483][Learning by Learning to
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159 Communicate]], 2007
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161 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37913][Games, Puzzles, and Computation]]
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162 - By [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/][Robert Aubrey Hearn]], 2006.
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163
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164 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for
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165 Computation]]
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166 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009
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167 - Is a completely new way to program computers.
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168 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]].
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169
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170 * From Sussman's Bookshelf:
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172 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Network-Theory-Amar-Bose/dp/B0000CMXS1][Introductory Network Theory]], by A.G. Bose and K.N. Stevens
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173 - ASIN: B0000CMXS1
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174 - Get the real story about RLC circuits!
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175 - Obsolete -- it only covers linear circuits.
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177 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Nonlinear-Circuits-Leon-Chua/dp/0070108986][Linear and Nonlinear Circuits]], by Chua, Desoler, and Kuh
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178 - ISBN: 0070108986
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179 - More up-to-date than /Network Theory/
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180 - 10/10 would teach
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181 - Mathematically very clear
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183 - [[http://frank.harvard.edu/aoe/][The Art of Electronics]], by Horowitz & Hill
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184 - ASIN: B001ERDQVI
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185 - Practical
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186 - Beautiful
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188 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Design-Analog-Integrated-Circuits/dp/0471574953/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401819423&sr=1-1&keywords=Analysis+and+Design+of+Analog+Integrated+Circuits+3rd+edition][Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits]], by Grey and
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189 Meyer
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190 - ISBN: 0471574953
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191 - Get the 2nd or 3rd edition, not later ones.
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193 - [[http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/a-survey-of-modern-algebra][A Survey of Modern Algebra]], by Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders
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194 MacLane
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195 - ISBN: 9781568814544
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196 - Goes all the way to Galois Theory!
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197 - Clear!
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199 - [[http://usf.usfca.edu/vca//][Visual Complex Analysis]], Needham
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200 - ISBN: 0198534469
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201 - Easy reading, well written
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202 - Wonderful use of graphics!
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203
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204 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/solid-shape][Solid Shape]], Jan Koenderink
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205 - ISBN: 026211139X
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206 - Just good!
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207
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208 - [[http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/theoretical-physics-and-mathematical-physics/probability-theory-logic-science][Probability: the Logic of Science]], by E.T. Jaynes
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209 - ISBN: 9780521592710
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210 - OMG just read this already!
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211 - Here's [[http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html][some]] [[http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html][links]] to the book.
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212 - This book will change your life, and make probability make
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213 sense. Truly excellent book.
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214 - Why aren't you reading this!?
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216 - [[http://www.perseusacademic.com/book.php?isbn=0805390219][Calculus on Manifolds]], Spivak
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217 - ISBN: 9780805390216
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218 - Great Mathematical notation!
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219 - Was an inspiration for [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM]].
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220 - Book contains a great flame!
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222 - [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258635.The_Variational_Principles_of_Mechanics][The Variational Principles of Mechanics]], by Cornelius Lanczos
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223 - ISBN: 0486650677
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224 - Very philosophic; deep.
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225 - You could read it 100 times and learn something new each time!
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227 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][Computers and Thought]], by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
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228 Feldman (Editor).
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229 - ISBN: 0262560925
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230 - This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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231 AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included
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232 papers are not very interesting.
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233
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234 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms]],
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235 by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
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236 - ISBN: 9780262013895
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237 - I learned a lot reading this.
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238
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239 - [[http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199549078.do][Principles of Development]], by Wolpert
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240 - ISBN: 0199554285
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241
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242 - [[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1547380.A_Genetic_Switch][A Genetic Switch]], by Mark Ptashne
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243 - ISBN: 0865423156
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244 - Such clarity!
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245 - [[http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/mark-ptashne/genetic-switch-lecture-series][Lecture Series Based on the book!]]
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246
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247 - [[http://making-of-a-fly.me/][The Making of a Fly]], by Peter A. Lawrence
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248 - ISBN: 0632030488
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249 - Probably out of date already, but very well written!
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250
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251 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Formation-Ciliate-Studies-Models/dp/0195048903][Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models]], by Joseph Frankel
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252 - ISBN: 0195048903
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253 - My type of book!
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254
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255 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/harmonic-mind][The Harmonic Mind]], Volumes 1 and 2, by Smolenck and Legendre
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256 - ISBN: 9780262516198
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257 - I'm very interested in the amazing latency of the human
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258 brain. This book presents a way by which multiple stages of
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259 computation can be folded together into a single computation,
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260 and is an interesting hypothesis about how the mind might work!
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262 - [[http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2013-Hardcover-Edition][The Radio Amateur's Handbook]], [[http://www.arrl.org/][ARRL]]
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263 - /practical/ electronics book
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264 - They've been making this book for about 100 years!
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266 - [[http://www.amazon.com/Radiotron-Langford-Smith-Reproduced-Distributed-Corporation/dp/B000JILVH4][Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th edition, RCA]]
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267 - ASIN: B000JILVH4
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268 - I'm very interested in hi-fi.
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272 #+BEGIN_QUOTE
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273 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my adviser when I was a
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274 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetism"
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275 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
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276 right amount of negligence and delegation to create an environment
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277 where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
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278 seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
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279 knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
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280 Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class well without
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281 preparation!
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282
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283 --Prof. Sussman
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284 #+END_QUOTE
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286 - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
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287 including his book, /The Emotion Machine/, and several essays and
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288 papers. Check it out!
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289
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290 - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
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291 short, self-contained essay about some aspect of intelligence or
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292 development.
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293
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294 - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
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295 can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
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296 of these improvisations [[http://aurellem.org/mmm/][here]].
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297
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298 - [[http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/steps.html][Steps towards Artificial Intelligence]] Here, Minsky outlines how we
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299 might begin to build an AI. This is considered to be one of the
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300 founding papers of the field, along with Turing's "Computing
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301 Machinery and Intelligence" [[http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html][paper]].
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302
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303 - Perceptrons, by Marvin Minsky
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304 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/perceptrons][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262631112
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305 - Really good for "Math types."
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306 - Uses geometry for proving things.
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307 - People unwisely considered it to kill off Neural Nets; In fact,
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308 it only shows the limitations of certain simple kinds of Neural
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309 Nets.
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311 * For Fun
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312 - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point]], by Huw Price
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313 - ISBN: 0195117980
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314 - A reasonable philosopher!
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315
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316 - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by
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317 Clifford M. Will
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318 - ISBN: 0465090869
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319
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320 - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein
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321 - ISBN: 0441790348
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322
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323 - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy
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324 - ISBN: 1449388396
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325 - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
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326 example.
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327 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! "This book really captures
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328 what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days."
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330 * Selected works by Sussman
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331
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332 - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is
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333 the textbook of [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/][6.946]], a class in Classical Mechanics that Sussman
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334 generally teaches in the Fall.
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335 - ISBN: 9780262194556
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336 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-classical-mechanics][MIT Press]]
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337
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338 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/][SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)]] This is
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339 the textbook of the (no longer offered) [[http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/][6.001]] introductory
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340 Computer Science class at MIT. It's a classic!
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341 - ISBN: 0-262-01077-1
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342
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343 - [[http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/][R5RS (Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme)]]
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344 Spec. for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29][scheme]] computer language. Sussman is very proud of
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345 the short length of this document compared to the specifications
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346 for most other computer languages. It's based on the [[http://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm][Revised
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347 Report on the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60]]
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348
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349 - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/calculus-indexed.pdf][Functional Differential Geometry]] Treatment of functional
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350 differential geometry in the classic SIC[M/P] style.
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