Reading List

Works I recommend.


Computer Science

Abelson & Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Mathematics

Analysis

Spivak. Calculus.

Linear Algebra

Axler. Linear Algebra Done Right.

Probability

Jaynes. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.

Proofs

Velleman. How to Prove It.

Set Theory

Halmos. Naive Set Theory.

Dauben. Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.

Logic & Foundations

Logic

Nagel & Newman. Goedel's Proof.

Philosophy of Mathematics

Courant & Robbins. What is Mathematics?

Russell. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy.

Hilbert. Über das Unendliche.

Lakatos. A Renaissance of Empiricism in the Recent Philosophy of Mathematics?

Philosophy of Science

Poincaré. Science and Method.

Korzybski. Science and Sanity.

Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Humanities

Goethe. Faust.

Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Philosophy

Wittgenstein. Philosophische Untersuchungen.

Kant. Kritik der reinen Vernunft.


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