# HG changeset patch # User rlm # Date 1401817659 14400 # Node ID dc6a0ea8e2dd92d1648eb06467e509e6e56bd509 # Parent b8a6638e6e5e20ef8fff7e8390a1dbd8dd0569fb annotated "for fun" section. diff -r b8a6638e6e5e -r dc6a0ea8e2dd org/sussman-reading-list.org --- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:36:48 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org Tue Jun 03 13:47:39 2014 -0400 @@ -7,31 +7,21 @@ #+INCLUDE: ../../aurellem/org/level-0.org #+babel: :mkdirp yes :noweb yes :exports both +* TODO something about the point of this + If you want to cite any of these papers, [[./sussman-recs.bib][here]] is a bibtex format file that contains all of these papers in the order they appear on the page. ([[./sussman-recs.bib]]). # NEEDS WORK -* For fun - - Time's Arrow ad Archemdedes's ???? (price) - - a reasonable philisopher - - was einstein right? (clifford will) - - - 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 - - not too heavy - - you can just go through it... - - minimal dependencies + - Bernard F Schultz "A first course in general relativity" + - readable + - not too heavy + - you can just go through it... + - minimal dependencies - Mermin, Space and time in special relativity - can be read by H.S. student @@ -259,3 +249,21 @@ - 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]]. +* For Fun + - [[http://prce.hu/w/TAAP.html][Time's Arrow and Archemdedes' Point]], by Huw Price + - ISBN: 0195117980 + - A reasonable philisopher! + + - [[http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/wer.html][Was Einstein Right? : Putting General Relativity To The Test]], by + Clifford M. Will + - ISBN: 0465090869 + + - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land][Stranger in a Strange Land]], by Robert A. Heinlein + - ISBN: 0441790348 + + - [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729][Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution]], by Steven Levy + - ISBN: 1449388396 + - Accuracy is not too good - people's names are spelled wrong, for + example. + - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures + what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.