Post #1899150
2024-12-01 10:09 UTC
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@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org 2024-12-01 15:18
Over 40 suggestions have come in for the 'Totemic Books for Many Fields' page, thank you so much!! The page has now been much expanded, and also has a section on books that didn't quite make it, and some further guidance on just what kind of stone cold classics (or books that should be) I am looking for: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/totemic-books-for-many-fields/#some-more-on-what-books-should-be-on-this-page
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social 2024-12-01 10:18
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org re. astrophysics, and physics generally, I love Martin Rees’s “Just Six Numbers” It straddles a line between primer and pop-science, as it’s written very much for the general public rather than a professional in the field. Not sure if that’s the level you’re looking for https://explainingscience.org/martin-rees-just-six-numbers/
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@avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org 2024-12-01 10:19
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Nice :). You need a #Bookwyrm account!
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@janl@narrativ.es 2024-12-01 10:24
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Tyoography: Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typographic Style. UI/UX Design: The Apple Human Interface Guidelines (both the original from the 80s and the ~2010s edition that includes mobile/touch design. Programming: Not a book, but Guy Steele’s talk Growing a Language is essential.
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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2024-12-01 10:42
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org for CS, Abelson and Sussman’s “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (bonus: it’s available for free) and of course Knuth.
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@venite@mastodon.nl 2024-12-01 10:52
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org the structure of scientific revolutions (Kuhn) for all of them and Russell’s Principles for mathematics
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 10:55
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Great initiative!
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@alzimon@mastodon.nl 2024-12-01 11:18
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org If you had a category about (information) security, then maybe Security Engineering by Anderson should go in it. Also: anybody who is thinking of doing anything with ephemeris calculations (classical astronony) needs Astronomical Algorithms by Meeus. btw were you thinking of more theoretical or more practical books?
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@jhaand@mas.to 2024-12-01 11:19
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Electronics: The Art of Electronics 2nd and 3rd edition, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics
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@jhaand@mas.to 2024-12-01 11:21
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Embedded Software: Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition by Elecia White Released March 2024 Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN: 9781098151546 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-embedded-systems/9781098151539/
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@AltArtOrg@mastodon.ie 2024-12-01 11:45
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Category: Visual Art "Ways Of Seeing" by John Berger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing
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@blackisthelight@kolektiva.social 2024-12-01 11:45
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Architecture - A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
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@mattlehrer@definitely.social 2024-12-01 11:49
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Scientific history: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Business/economics: - The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie - Influence by Cialdini - The Lean Startup by Ries
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@leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org 2024-12-01 11:57
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Would be recursive fun to include "The order of things" by Michel Foucault :)
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@chx@chx.contact 2024-12-01 12:13
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org If you want to cover prehistory, Dawn Of Everything and Who We Are And How We Got Here.
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@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 12:13
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Totally agree with Landau and Lifshitz being on that list. Depending on the intended granularity regarding the fields, "Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles" by Bohren and Huffman could be on the list. For atmospheric science, "Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology" by Holton comes to mind.
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@ronaldw@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 12:53
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org the selfish gene (Dawkins) for Biology?
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@eloy@hsnl.social 2024-12-01 13:04
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org in the category of books that have a counter culture pointing out flaws, I'd say that Clean Code by Robert C. Martin should be included
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@hydropsyche@ecoevo.social 2024-12-01 13:18
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org To me as a biologist, our answer is Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Gregor Mendel's Experiments in Plant Hybridization. Everything else flows from those two.
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@yuhasz01@mastodon.social 2024-12-01 13:20
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(1962).
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@quixoticgeek@social.v.st 2024-12-01 13:37
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org These are all books I think explain things in ways other books have failed to. Or fill in gaps that just aren't covered by other works. for economics: "Debt: the first 5000 years" - David Graeber "The deficit myth" - Stephanie Kelton Cryptography "The code book" Simon Singh Climate "The limits of growth" Science (history) "Exactly" - Simon Winchester "Nuts and bolts" - Roma Agrawal
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@number9@infosec.exchange 2024-12-01 13:44
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org For software/computer systems, Design Patterns needs to be on the list for sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
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@artemesia@techhub.social 2024-12-01 13:46
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Ignition! by John Clark. History and practice of American research into liquid rocket fuels. Still relevant today, since they ain't making new types of atoms. https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk 2024-12-01 14:03
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Maybe 'The Universal History of Numbers' by Georges Ifrah (It's somewhere around history of maths I guess? or hmm.)
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@eloy@hsnl.social 2024-12-01 14:21
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Oh! The Codebreakers! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Codebreakers
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@eloy@hsnl.social 2024-12-01 14:32
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org with regards to software project management, The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks might be the most important book
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@pivot@infosec.exchange 2024-12-01 14:34
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Organizational Ecology by Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman is sociology, addressing the lifecycle of businesses and other organizations. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition by Ronald Burt is also sociology, focusing on the individual person's place in a competitive world, and the nature of interpersonal power. I see you have the Feynman lectures for physics, and I second that. I don't think I'd describe any of the other texts I've encountered in that field as totemic. Maybe Sears for thermodynamics - not Sears and Salinger, the older one.