(This is a re-post from 2011)
Towards the end of 2011 I stumbled upon Harward's systems research lab and was curious to know about Indian grad students there. There was only a single student. Son of Mr. Narayan Murty (Infosys). Rohan Murty. I felt curious about the collection of books he had read since 2005. And here it is.
Towards the end of 2011 I stumbled upon Harward's systems research lab and was curious to know about Indian grad students there. There was only a single student. Son of Mr. Narayan Murty (Infosys). Rohan Murty. I felt curious about the collection of books he had read since 2005. And here it is.
I had always had this problem about finding a good source of books to read from a reliable source. This list made me extremely happy.
Men of Mathematics - E.T. Bell (5/5)
1984 - George Orwell (5/5)
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel (5/5)
Masters of Doom : How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner (5/5)
Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh (5/5)
e: The Story of a Number - Eli Maor (5/5)
A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy (4/5)
Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick (3/5)
'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) - Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings and Albert R. Hibbs (5/5)
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton (4/5)
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb - William Poundstone (3/5)
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman - Timothy Ferris (5/5)
Genius : The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick (3/5)
Trigonometric Delights - Eli Maor (3/5)
The Hilbert Challenge - Jeremy Gray (3/5)
No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman - Richard P. Feynman (3/5)
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics - George Johnson (4/5)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman and Jeffrey Robbins (2/5)
Feynman Lectures on Computation (2/5)
Six Easy Pieces, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman (4/5)
Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman (5/5)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter (4/5)
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun - David L. Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein and Richard Phillips Feynman (2/5)
Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen - Clifford A. Pickover - 2002 (2/5)
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics - Marcus du Sautoy (4/5)
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite - Eli Maor (4/5)
Interactions : A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist - Sheldon Glashow and Ben Bova (3/5)
Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman's Last Journey - Ralph Leighton - 2003 (2/5)
Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy - Tim Roughgarden (5/5)
Universities and Their Leadership - Bowen and Shapiro (Editors) - 2004 (5/5)
The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod - 2005 (3/5)
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (4/5)
Einstein: The Life and Times - Ronald Clark (3/5)
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Steven Strogatz (4/5)
The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University - Frank Rhodes - 2005 (5/5)
Emergence: From Chaos to Order - John H. Holland - 2005 (2/5)
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond (3/5)
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History - Stephen Hawking (2/5)
Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason - Charles Freeman - 2006 (5/5)
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World - Stephen O'Shea - 2006 (4/5)
A Short History of Byzantium - John Julius Norwich - 2006 (4/5)
Byzantium: The Early Centuries - John Julius Norwich (5/5)
Byzantium: The Apogee - John Julius Norwhich (4/5)
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall - John Julius Norwhich (4/5)
For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery - Rodney Stark (3/5)
The Physics of Superheroes - James Kakalios (4/5)
One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism - Rodney Stark (3/5)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond (1/5)
Behavioural Game Theory: Experiments in strategic interactions - Colin Camerer (3/5)
A Beautiful Mind - Slyvia Nassar (4/5)
Complete Yes Prime Minister - Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay (5/5)
Choice and Consequence - Thomas C. Schelling (3/5)
Readings in Political Economy - Kaushik Basu (3/5)
The Book of the Courtier - Baldesar Castiglione (3/5)
Rationality and Freedom - Amartya Sen (2/5)
Fate Is the Hunter - Ernest K. Gann (4/5)
Great Feuds in Mathematics - Hellman (4/5)
Constantine and the Conversion of Europe - Jones (3/5)
Becoming Charlemagne - Jeff Sypeck (4/5)
Moral Minds - Marc Hauser (4/5)
A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut (5/5)
Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine - Lenski (3/5)
The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant (5/5)
An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Wolff (5/5)
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (3/5)
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (3/5)
Lord Chesterfield's Letters - Lord Chesterfield (3/5)
American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer - Bird and Sherwin (4/5)
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck (5/5)
The Moral Consequences of Economic Freedom - Friedman (5/5)
A History of Civilizations - Braudel (3/5)
Among the Believers - Naipaul (4/5)
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist - Victor Stenger (3/5)
Bookless in Baghdad - Shashi Tharoor (2/5)
The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen (2/5)
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (5/5)
Chairman of the Board: A Practical Guide - Brian Lechem (1/5)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseni (3/5)
Big Bang - Simon Singh (5/5)
The Undercover Economist - Tim Hartford (4/5)
Right Hand Left Hand - Chris McManus (4/5)
The Battle for God - Karen Armstrong (4/5)
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel - Rebecca Goldstein (4/5)
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics - Gino Segre (4/5)
God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism- Jonathan Kirsch (4/5)
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher - Julian Baginni (2/5)
The Therapy of Desire - Martha Nussbaum (3/5)
Boeing versus Airbus - John Newhouse (4/5)
Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku (2/5)
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company - David Price (2/5)
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul - Kenneth Miller (4/5)
Lectures on The History of Moral Philosophy - John Rawls (3/5)
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist - Richard P. Feynman (2/5)
Vikram Sarabhai - Amrita Shah (3/5)
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works - Arthur Rimbaud (4/5)
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World - Timothy Brook (4/5)
Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life - Leonard Mlodinow (3/5)
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions - Martha Nussbaum (3/5)
Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee (5/5)
Mohandas - Rajmohan Gandhi (3/5)
Thus Spoke Zarathushtra - Friedrich Nietzsche (3/5)
Alberuni’s India - Al-Biruni (4/5)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (5/5)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (5/5)
The Quantum Ten - Sheila Jones (4/5)
Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred -Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles - George G. Szpiro (4/5)
The Honors Class: Hilbert’s Problems and Their Solvers - Ben Yandell (3/5)
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments - George Johnson (3/5)
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (4/5)
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg - Robert P. Crease (2/5)
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code - Matt Ridley (1/5)
Empires of the Indus - Alice Albinia (4/5)
Essays of E. B. White - E. B. White (4/5)
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science - John D. Barrow (4/5)
The Great American University - Jonathan Cole (5/5)
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality - Manjit Kumar (4/5)
