This is a list of books which I have completed reading or am currently reading, defined to be at least one hour committed within the last week. Some of these books I have re-read, and am hence more familiar; some of them I have not touched since completing.
My commentary, if any, on these books is typically opinion. I do not necessarily have any expertise any the areas around which the topics of these books are centered, nor do I claim to have such; take everything with the euphemistic "grain of salt".
Also of note is that I am a very slow reader, so some of these may sit in the uncompleted status for a long time. My goal is to understand what I am reading ( quality ) and not to just fly through as many topics as possible while only acquiring the superfulous points ( quantity ).
Most of what is listed below are textbooks, reference books, historical in nature or some other non-fiction. Not that I have anything against fiction, at least not in the sense of net accepting it, but I find reality far more interesting.
*** All books are referenced in an IEEE citation format or as close as I could
get with a reasonable effort. ***
*** This page needs to be severely reformatted. ***
*** After completing all of my other life's goals, I need to spell check and
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J. A. Paulos,
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences.
New York, NY: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.,
1990
ISBN: 0-679-72601-2
ISBN-13: 9780679726012
J. A. Paulos,
Beyond Numeracy.
New York, NY: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.,
1992
ISBN: 0-679-73807-X
ISBN-13: 9780679738077
J. L. Casti,
Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise.
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.,
1994
ISBN: 0-06-016888-9
ISBN-13: 9780060168889
I. B. Cohen,
The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life.
New York, NY: W. W. & Company, Inc.,
2005
ISBN: 0-393-05769-0
ISBN-13: 9780393057690
B. H. Yandell,
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers.
Natick, MA: A. K. Peters, Ltd.,
2001
ISBN: 1-56881-141-1
ISBN-13: 9781568811413
C. Reid,
Hilbert.
New York, NY: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.,
1996
ISBN: 0-387-94674-8
ISBN-13: 9780387946740
C. Reid,
Courant.
New York, NY: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.,
1996
ISBN: 0-387-94670-5
ISBN-13: 9780387946702
J. J. Gray,
The Hilbert Challenge.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.,
2001
ISBN: 0-19-850651-1
ISBN-13: 9780198506515
J. L. Casti and W. DePauli,
Gödel: A Life of Logic.
Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing,
2000
ISBN: 0-7382-0518-4
ISBN-13: 9780738205182
D. Rockmore,
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers.
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.,
2005
ISBN: 0-375-42136-X
ISBN-13: 9780375421365
D. van Dalen,
Mystic, Geometer and Intuitionist: The Life of L.E.J. Brouwer.
Vol. 1: The Dawning Revolution.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.,
1999
ISBN-13: 9780198502975
D. van Dalen,
Mystic, Geometer and Intuitionist: The Life of L.E.J. Brouwer.
Vol. 2: Hope and Disillusion.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.,
2005
ISBN-13: 9780198516200
G. P. Szpiro,
Poincaré's Prize: The Hundered-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles.
London, England: Penguin Books, Ltd.,
2007
ISBN-13: 9780525950240
J. Derbyshire,
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics.
Washington, DC: Joesph Henry Press,
2003
ISBN: 0-309-08549-7
ISBN-13: 9780309085496
A. Hodges,
Alan Turing: The Enigma.
United States of America: Walker Publishing Company, Inc.,
2000
ISBN: 0-8027-7580-2
ISBN-13: 9780802775801
J. Derbyshire,
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra.
Washington, DC: Joesph Henry Press,
2006
ISBN: 0-309-09657-X
ISBN-13: 9780309096577
T. Franzén,
Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to it's Use and Abuse.
Wellesly, MA: A K Peters, Ltd.,
2005
ISBN: 1-56881-238-8
ISBN-13: 9781568812380
A. D. Aczel,
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity.
New York, NY: Washington Square Press,
2001
ISBN: 0-7434-2299-6
ISBN-13: 9780743422994
J. W. Dauben,
Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.,
Princton, NJ: Princton University Press,
1990
ISBN: 0-691-02447-2
ISBN-13: 9780691024479
C. Musciano and B. Kennedy,
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide.,
6th Edition,
Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.,
2006
ISBN-13: 9780596527327
M. MacMillan,
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.,
New York, New York: Random House, Inc.,
2002
ISBN: 0-375-50826-0
ISBN-13: 9780375508264
I. Rock,
Perception.
New York, New York: W. H. Freeman Company,
1995
ISBN: 0-7167-6011-8
ISBN-13: 9780716760115
M. J. Osborne,
An Introduction to Game Theory.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
2004
ISBN: 0-19-512895-8
ISBN-13: 9780195128956
E. A. Meyer,
CSS: The Definitive Guide.,
3rd Edition,
Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.,
2006
ISBN-13: 9780596527334
P. DuBois,
MySQL.,
4th Edition,
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley
2009
ISBN: 0-672-32938-7
ISBN-13: 9780672329388