# HG changeset patch # User rlm # Date 1401816966 14400 # Node ID 1bfd6f7d3895b514a96d7eab3220b32633498bfb # Parent 0025ada5030ad62ef35409ca01257b596cee406b major heading reorginazation. diff -r 0025ada5030a -r 1bfd6f7d3895 org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:31:31 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:36:06 2014 -0400 @@ -11,45 +11,19 @@ that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). -* Recommendations - - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian - Feldman (Editor). - - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]] - - ISBN: 0262560925 - This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in - AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included - papers are not very interesting. - - - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms, - by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz - - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895 - - - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) - -* Things Micah should read - - - Wolpert Principles of development - - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne - - Lawrence the making of a fly - - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!) - -* Things rlm should read - - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre - * For fun - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price) - a reasonable philisopher - was einstein right? (clifford will) -* Everybody should know: - - fundamental physics - - classical mechanics - - E & M - - relativity - - QM - - mathemeatics + - Stranger in a strange land + - Hackers, by Steven Levy + - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for + example. + - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! + +* Some /Real/ Highschool Reading - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity" - readable @@ -57,6 +31,17 @@ - you can just go through it... - minimal dependencies + - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity + - can be read by H.S. student + - will change your life + - you will understand special relativity! + + - faynman lectures + - learn something + - understandable + + + - Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky - Scott Aaronson "Quantum Computing since Democratus" - everything you might want to know about QM, w/ phiospphical @@ -69,22 +54,7 @@ - discover what people were actually thinking - very interesting document -- Stranger in a strange land - - -- radio amateur's handbook ARRL - - /practical/ electronics book - - done for 100 years - -- Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition - - "I'm very interested in hi-fi." - -- Hackers, by Steven Levy - - Accuracy is not to good - people's names are spelled wrong, for - example. - - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! - -* From house interview +* From Sussman's Bookshelf - Network Theory, Bose + Stevens - beautiful, best book. @@ -123,15 +93,34 @@ - deep - read 100 times, learn something new each time - - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity - - can be read by H.S. student - - will change your life - - you will understand special relativity! + - radio amateur's handbook ARRL + - /practical/ electronics book + - done for 100 years - - faynman lectures - - learn something - - understandable + - Radiotron Designer's handbook RCA, 4th edition + - "I'm very interested in hi-fi." + - Computers and Thought, by Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian + Feldman (Editor). + - [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-thought][MIT Press]] + - ISBN: 0262560925 + This book includes some of the very interesting early papers in + AI, and is overall a great book. Of course, some of the included + papers are not very interesting. + + - The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms, + by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz + + [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/configuration-space-method-kinematic-design-mechanisms][MIT Press]], ISBN: 9780262013895 + + - I learned a lot reading this. (RLM should read this!) + + - Wolpert Principles of development + - A geneti switch Mark Ptashne + - Lawrence the making of a fly + - Frankel "Pattern Formation" (my type of book!) + + - The harmonic mind vol 1+2 smolenck + legendre * Marvin Minsky Minsky really made me as a person. He was my advisor when I was a @@ -264,3 +253,4 @@ - By [[http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/][Alexey Andreyevich Radul]], 2009 - Is a completely new way to program computers. - Under active development. You can get the latest code [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/propagator.tar][here]]. +