/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15048472
read textbooks, "history" books made by mainstream scientists are trash and not science

austin powers looking ass nigga

>>15048477
No. I want enjoyable reads that don't require all my attention while still being rewarding

>>15048490
Oh, then I like "road to reality" by roger penrose

Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry by Simmons
C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition by King

The vital question by nick lane

Pic related has info on the future implications of gene editing.

>no textbooks
You are too retarded for them, right?

>>15049448
Meh. Its sample sounds pretty midwit. "Never mentioned in textbooks." Yeah, but mentioned by me for decades...

>>15048472

>>15048472

>>15049477
I read them for my studies.
I want to relax but still feel somewhat productive when I go home
I do not enjoy reading pic rel before going to sleep

>>15050240
so you're retarded, got it

>>15050252
please have intercourse

>>15050300
You're the incel who wants to leisurely read pop-sci garbage instead of having sex in his free time.

>>15049477
>>15050252
>>15050385
The level of pompous retardation of /sci/ never ceases to amaze me. You are not nearly a intelligent as you like to pretend you are. I'd even say you are dumber than the average person, solely due to how absolutely convinced you are of your own "intelligence".

>>15050300
Sex is a sin, Anon, please stop being the Devil's pawn.

https://youtu.be/49J-VcYQOKg

>>15048842
is this inironically good? Obviously the ideas presented there are, but isn't it one of those books that are really "heavy" to read?

>>15050417
see >>15050385

>>15050240
>I want to relax but still feel somewhat productive
kek

>>15050472
Post your works, thesis', accreditations, ANYTHING of value on ANY level.

Whats you field of expertise?

>Nothing. You have NOTHING. You have achieved NOTHING. You will achieve NOTHING. You are NOTHING.

Well, glad we settled that.

>>15050385
Yes, and?

>>15050482
>I want to relax but still feel somewhat productive
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

>>15050485
>If I pretend to win I never have to acknowledge my own defeat.

Genius.

>>15050497
Of course dumb kiddie, now do your homework and gtfo this board.

>>15050497
>I want to be le PRODOOCTIVE but also chill at the same time
Hate to break it to you, son, but work is work. Don't pretend this nonsense is productive.

>>15050508
>do your homework
Im literally one of the best Number Theorists alive, POST YOUR THESIS YOU WASTE OF SPACE.
t.YOUR PROFESSOR
>>15050511
>work is work
WRONG. You a "laborer", never confuse the designer with the ditch digger...now...GO TO CLASS OR STFU.


Glad we seperated the ACTUAL Mathematicians from the Psuedo-Laborer-Charlatans.

>>15050521
>ACTUAL Mathematicians
Or Geneticists, Physicists, whatever ist you can thinj of.

I'll smoke you in any field of your choosing.

ANY. Bring it.

>>15050521
>Number Theorists
Wrong, you are a numerologist. You know, that pathologic pack of people that feel a spritual connection to numbers and poetically write about that. Formalism isn't something you're capable of, sorry, sunshine.

I can't believe people are still idolizing this diseased, defective, idea-stealing retard.
He's dead now. You can stop kissing his ass to virtue-signal to your leftist friends that you value useless faggots in wheelchairs.
>INB$: Someone in (((Academia))) would have told me if he spent his life stealing other people's work!

>>15050524
>I'll smoke you in any field of your choosing.
Advanced alchemy in renaissance Latin!
(I just wanted to say that.)

>>15050524
Wait, wait, wait. I just looked at your image.
You are literally claiming that Quantum Field Theory is incoherent garbage, you fucking savage?

>>15050564
>you are a numerologist
That falls under Theology, which is brached from Phenomenology/Physiology/Genetics/Mathematical Biology. All formal fields, all cited and sourced.

You will never win. You have NOTHING.

>>15050589
>Advanced alchemy in renaissance Latin!
Fuck, thays archaic and I have maybe one legit source in my head on that, the rest is common knowledge sources. I could find it if I took the time but its about 1,500 years old, Arab/Islamic region/era, "Chemistry" based.

Touché.

>>15050591
Correct. Messy equations are bad Physics, bad Science.

Non /sci/ books that are good:
Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond, J.
How the World Really Works - Smil, V.
Mody Dick - Melville, H.
Seeing Like a State - Scott, J.
The Secret of Our Success - Henrich, J.
World War Z - Brooks, M

>>15050678
>Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond, J.
I read about a pages worth of this ham-fisted, hyper midwit, pseudo discerning, topical garbage and threw it away.

Absolute garbage, use it for starting a fire or something.

>>15050723
I should have done the same but I slogged through the whole thing. There were quite a few places where he resorted "it's really weird that this doesn't fit in with everything else" when he was obviously barking up the wrong tree with his guesses.

>>15050678
>Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond, J.
Debunked

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/guns-germs-and-steel-revisited/

>>15050460
Darwin writes beautifully so no it's not hard to read. His autobiography has even more of his personality and humor in it and I recommend that as well

>>15051266
lol cope

t. expert

>>15051292
Not an argument

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3rdVQZ3mo

bump

The Discovery of France is a pretty good book about how we got from peasants to citizens

there's a lot of scientific literature that isn't textbooks, but definitely not pop-sci, that shines above most textbooks b/c it's allowed to have an exploratory mode and not an explanatory mode, and literary density rather than straightforwardness. i think that's what you're looking for, so here's some of my favorites. (i'm an ecologist but i used to be a mathematician)
maths:
*figuring space (essay collection by giles chatalet. this ones dense but a longtime favorite)
*synthetic philosophy of contemporary mathematics by fernando zalamea (similar topics as the above but better for an undergrad audience. ever wonder what those french fucks are up to?)
*laws of form by spencer brown (controversial classic. must be read once in everyones life.)
*proofs and refutations by imre lakatos AND against method by fereyabend. see the classic fight epistemological fight!
*proofs from the book (this doesn't count as a textbook, right? the commentary is good)
*the fractal geometry of nature by mandelbrot. give this one to your girlfriend.

life and earth sciences:
*foundations of ecology classic papers anthology outta u chicago press. these go down smooth.
*a sand county almanac by aldo leopolod. funny observations on ducks and moose and the history of our country, with a real natural historian's eye.
*any of the steven jay gould collections. don't care if you agree w/ his politics. nobody writes dinosaurs better than him.
*life itself and essays on life itself by robert rosen. the densest one on the bio list, but mostly mathematically. for fans of schrodinger's writing.
*the phenomenon of man by teilhard de chardin. jesuit paleontology. im not a christian but it's beautiful all the same.
*just go read darwin
*done? ok just go read moby dick
*on growth and form by d'arcy wentworth: giant encyclopedic old timey 1920s ode to developmental biology. good to fall asleep to.

um there's way more. but. that should be enough. have fun

>>15048472
>Stephen Hawking's last words: "There is no God."

not sure if based or cringe

>>15053594
good post

>>15050469
Baby crying. Just fucking kill yourself.

>>15048472
Biographies and history books hit the mark