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ITT:

Name your major and the ONE textbook or set of textbooks that a smart beginner can read to give you the best basic introduction to the topic. As a reference guide for aspiring broadly knowledgeable polymaths

Ideally this thread should have single-textbook introductions to the babby level broad basics of all majors such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Law, Political Science etc.

I'll start
>Computer Science
>Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)
>https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press/dp/0262033844

>> No.9272913

>>9272910
>>>/g/et out

>> No.9272916

>>9272910

> Civil Engineering
> The Book of Gomorrah by St. Peter Damian
> https://www.amazon.com/Book-Gomorrah-Eleventh-Century-Homosexual-Practices/dp/0889201234/

>> No.9272917
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>> No.9272920

>>9272913
>Get out, the brainlet typed, on a machine whose inner workings he does not comprehend, because he thinks it's just for brainlets and he "could learn it if he wanted to"

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>>9272920
>t. stereotype CS major taking credit for EE

>> No.9272955

>EE
>The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz

>> No.9272990

>>9272913
>>9272941
>brainlet couldn’t pass a graduate level analysis or algorithms class.
>thinks CS is all programming
>would fail many upper level math intensive proof theoretic CS course’s they rely on advance math.
>brainlet never heard of Homopty Type Theory
>brainlet doesn’t know category theory
>brainlet doesn’t into Algebriac topology

>> No.9272991

>>9272990
>Homopty Type Theory
literally a meme

>> No.9272993

>>9272991
A meme worth studying. Get up on my PL level

>> No.9274452

>>9272941
>Implying computers with no software on them are anything more than bricks

>> No.9274460

>>9272910
>physics
>Feynman lectures

What I like about them is that you can read them more like a novel than a textbook if you just want to get an idea of what's going on, but they also have all the content you'd need from intro physics courses.

>> No.9274596

already kind of done: http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki//sci/_Wiki

>> No.9274614

>>9272955
Yep. This is what I was thinking.

>> No.9274615

>>9272990
> Implying CS majors know algebraic topology, category, or homotopy type theory

>> No.9274616

>>9272910
pic related is a meme

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>cs
These books are the basic prerequisites.

>> No.9274798

>>9274644
>pinter

>>>/g/tfo

>> No.9275314

>>9274644
pinter's for normies. go for dummit and foote

>> No.9275433

>>9274798
>>9275314
We don't need the most thorough treatment of abstract algebra, just something to serve as a bridge between linear algebra and category theory. For that purpose Pinter is good enough for computer science education.

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Literally this

>Any reasonably smart undergrad with some knowledge in group theory could work this out easily
>It gives an introduction to all the new topics, making the book incredibly self contained
>Gives problems not for the sake of just understanding concepts but has problems at the end of each chapter for understanding how to manipulate concepts for different situations

>> No.9275479

ITT: call a book a meme

>> No.9275485

My major is quick maffs.

I would recommend Spivak's differential geometry (all volumes), because meme covers.

>>9275445
I am very interested in this book.

>> No.9275512

>>9274644
>SICP
literally a meme

>> No.9275517

>>9272916
Kek no one notices.