Tuesday 25 March 2014

Pre university reading

Link to Cambridge Reading list for Maths
  1. How to Think Like a Mathematician - K Houston
  2. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman 
  3. Mathematics: The New Golden Age - Keith Devlin 
  4. Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh, Andrew Wiles 
  5. The Mathematical Universe - William Dunham 
  6. The Music of Primes - Marcus du Sautoy 
  7. Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy 
  8. A History of Pi - Petr Beckmann 
  9. The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets - S Singh
  10. A Mathematician's Apology - G H Hardy
Technical Books:
  1. Introduction to Complex Analysis - H A Priestley
  2. Mathematical Methods for Science Students - G Stephenson
  3. Guide to Analysis - M Hart
  4. Linear Algebra and Geometry - David Smart
  5. Vector Analysis and Cartesian Tensors - Kendall and Bourne
  6. Lebesgue Integration and Measure - A Weir
Physics/meta physics
  1. A Brief History of time - Stephen Hawking 
  2. The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking 
  3. Schrödinger's Kittens - John Gribbin 
  4. A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The essential scientific writings of Albert Einstein - Stephen Hawking 
  5. The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene 
  6. Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene 
  7. Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton!

2 comments:

  1. I'd recommend Gödel Escher Bach for anyone with any interest in mathematics beyond it's day-to-day usage, well worth a read

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  2. Link to the Cambridge University Maths reading list: http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/admissions/readinglist.pdf

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