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10 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file 10 If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file
11 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the 11 that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the
12 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). 12 page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]).
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14 * Recommendations 14 * For fun
15 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
16 - a reasonable philisopher
17 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
18
19 - Stranger in a strange land
20
21 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
22 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
23 example.
24 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
25
26 * Some /Real/ Highschool Reading
27
28 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
29 - readable
30 - not too heavy
31 - you can just go through it...
32 - minimal dependencies
33
34 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
35 - can be read by H.S. student
36 - will change your life
37 - you will understand special relativity!
38
39 - faynman lectures
40 - learn something
41 - understandable
42
43
44 - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
45
46 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
47 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
48 outlook
49
50
51 - Bible + friends
52 - whether or not you believe it
53 - read between the lines
54 - discover what people were actually thinking
55 - very interesting document
56
57 * From Sussman's Bookshelf
58
59 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
60 - beautiful, best book.
61 - obsolete, only linear
62 - get the real story about RLC circuits
63
64 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
65 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
66 - 10/10 would teach
67 - mathematically very clear
68
69 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
70 - practical
71
72 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
73 and integrated circuits"
74
75 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
76 - all the wau to gaoias theory
77 - clear
78
79 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
80 - Easy reading, well written
81
82 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
83 - just good
84
85 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
86
87 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
88 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
89 - great flame
90
91 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
92 - very phisolic
93 - deep
94 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
95
96 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
97 - /practical/ electronics book
98 - done for 100 years
99
100 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
101 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
102
15 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian 103 - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian
16 Feldman (Editor). 104 Feldman (Editor).
17 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]] 105 - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]]
18 - ISBN: 0262560925 106 - ISBN: 0262560925
19 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in 107 This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in
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26 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895 114 [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895
27 115
28 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) 116 - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!)
29 117
30 * Things Micah should read
31
32 - Wolpert Principles of development 118 - Wolpert Principles of development
33 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne 119 - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne
34 - Lawrence the making of a fly 120 - Lawrence the making of a fly
35 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!) 121 - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!)
36 122
37 * Things rlm should read
38 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre 123 - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre
39
40 * For fun
41 - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price)
42 - a reasonable philisopher
43 - was einstein right? (clifford will)
44
45 * Everybody should know:
46 - fundamental physics
47 - classical mechanics
48 - E & M
49 - relativity
50 - QM
51 - mathemeatics
52
53
54 - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity"
55 - readable
56 - not too heavy
57 - you can just go through it...
58 - minimal dependencies
59
60
61 - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus"
62 - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical
63 outlook
64
65
66 - Bible + friends
67 - whether or not you believe it
68 - read between the lines
69 - discover what people were actually thinking
70 - very interesting document
71
72 - Stranger in a strange land
73
74
75 - radio amateur's handbook ARRL
76 - /practical/ electronics book
77 - done for 100 years
78
79 - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition
80 - "I'm very interested in hi-fi."
81
82 - Hackers, by Steven Levy
83 - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for
84 example.
85 - But the /feelings/ are exactly right!
86
87 * From house interview
88
89 - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens
90 - beautiful, best book.
91 - obsolete, only linear
92 - get the real story about RLC circuits
93
94 - Linear and nonlinear circuits, Chua Sesoler kuh
95 - more up-to-date than /Network Theory/
96 - 10/10 would teach
97 - mathematically very clear
98
99 - "Art of electronics practice" horowitz & hill
100 - practical
101
102 - Grey + meyer (2nd or 3rd) edition "analysis and design of analogue
103 and integrated circuits"
104
105 - A survey of modern algebra Birkhoff + macland
106 - all the wau to gaoias theory
107 - clear
108
109 - Visual Complex Analusis, Needham
110 - Easy reading, well written
111
112 - Solid shape, Jan Koenderink
113 - just good
114
115 - Probability: the Logic of Science, Jaynes
116
117 - Calculus on Manifolds, Spivak
118 - great notation, inspiration for SICM
119 - great flame
120
121 - Variational Princ. Mech. Lanczos
122 - very phisolic
123 - deep
124 - read 100 times, learn something new each time
125
126 - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity
127 - can be read by H.S. student
128 - will change your life
129 - you will understand special relativity!
130
131 - faynman lectures
132 - learn something
133 - understandable
134
135 124
136 * Marvin Minsky 125 * Marvin Minsky
137 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a 126 Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a
138 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim" 127 student at MIT, and he got me my first job. He had the "magnetisim"
139 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the 128 to attract the most talented people to MIT to work on AI, and the
262 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for 251 - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49525][Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for
263 Computation]] 252 Computation]]
264 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009 253 - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009
265 - Is a completely new way to program computers. 254 - Is a completely new way to program computers.
266 - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]]. 255 - 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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