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Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:33:32 2011 No.3378430 [Reply] [Original]

It's summer and I'm finding myself quite bored with lots of time, what are some of /sci/'s suggestions of books to read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:35:32 2011 No.3378435 Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), The Man who Sold the Moon (Heinlein), From the Earth to the Moon (Verne)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:35:32 2011 No.3378433 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:35:32 2011 No.3378437 Bill Bryson is a candy ass.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:36:32 2011 No.3378439 This.

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:36:32 2011 No.3378440

godel escher bach is the best science book i've ever read.

you have to have good philosophical understanding and not be full of bullshit though. 99% of people who read that book won't shut the fuck up about it despite apparently not having understood what it was about.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:36:32 2011 No.3378441 >>3378437 Nicely now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:37:32 2011 No.3378445 The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski is also great if you can find a copy, though it's more scientific and cultural history than pure science.

>>	Krakengineer !!5XY+x7grkpt Tue Jul 12 07:37:32 2011 No.3378446 Of Matters Great and Small by Asimov. Its a collection of essays dealing with the concept of science. Very under appreciated IMHO.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:38:32 2011 No.3378452 >>3378440 I felt like I was watching Douglas Hofstadter publicly masturbate to a picture of his own brain in a mirror while reading that book. Would not recommend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:42:32 2011 No.3378459 >>3378452 i did not. a book being unashamedly academic does not make it pretentious. there are loads of fascinating things in it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:45:32 2011 No.3378466 >>3378459 I wasn't sure I'd ever witnessed someone be "high-falutin" until I read Hofstadter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:49:32 2011 No.3378473 >>3378440 I'm a little afraid to read it as I feel it is a little beyond me.. what's it about exactly?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:51:32 2011 No.3378478 >>3378466 ok, i think you made that point already? you want highfalutin, check out 'a tour of the calculus'. it's comedy gold.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:52:32 2011 No.3378483 >>3378473 It's about mathematical logic and other related topics. I'd recommend reading Raymond Smullyan's "The Lady and the Tiger" instead, then see how you feel.

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:55:32 2011 No.3378493

>>3378473
it's about self-reference and how this may be relevant to consciousness.
but most of the book is a tour of lots of different concepts before coming to the main one. you learn an informal proof, and get a lot of understanding of, godel's incompleteness theorem, for instance.
there's stuff about fractals, ant colonies, DNA.
most of the text is about 'formal systems' and the meaning of 'meaning'.
there are also loads of cool pictures and the book is EXTREMELY cleverly written, which is why it got a Pulitzer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 07:57:32 2011 No.3378499 File: 165 KB, 741x706, Screen shot 2011-07-12 at 12.56.33 pm.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] anymore?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:03:32 2011 No.3378517 The Cosmic Onion

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:19:32 2011 No.3378558 What happened to sci's guide to the internets?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:23:32 2011 No.3378572 >>3378499 can you provide a download link for that folder? also: Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Near. Facinating book about futurism, and the theory of accelarating scientific evolution.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:26:32 2011 No.3378581 File: 25 KB, 340x470, 1270467344809.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3378499 FUKKEN SAUCE

>>	51 Tue Jul 12 08:28:32 2011 No.3378583 >>3378499 Download link, please.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:48:32 2011 No.3378649 File: 18 KB, 356x275, 1278156914333.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3378499 bamp. Dude pls sauce!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:55:32 2011 No.3378657 >>3378649 it takes too long to upload but all those books are available for free at ebookee or simply by typing the title and author along with .pdf into google

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:57:32 2011 No.3378665 File: 81 KB, 621x444, 1271451151196.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3378657 >it takes too long to upload >it takes too long to look after them in google >it takes too long to read them fuck it, i'm leaving

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 08:57:32 2011 No.3378664 >>3378657 >>3378499 Thank you, man. I now embark on my quest to finish those books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:00:32 2011 No.3378675 >>3378665 lol should have said i'm actually uploading, just didn't think you'd want to wait...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:03:32 2011 No.3378686 >>3378430 stephen hawking is a piece of shit as a writer, looking back now i can see that

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:06:32 2011 No.3378697 File: 79 KB, 400x395, no.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3378686

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:11:32 2011 No.3378710 >>3378697 ok, maybe i should have better put it. as a physicist and looking back at his books let's just say they're not the best learning material out there and are written mostly for laymen and not people actually studying the subjects.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:21:32 2011 No.3378741 >>3378710 >written mostly for laymen The fact that you didn't know this from the outset is deeply disappointing.

Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:24:32 2011 No.3378748

>>3378741
when i first read it i didn't and that was a long time ago and to be honest at the time it wasn't as much pop as it is today. back then it was regarded as a very complex book which only a few could comprehend. 90% would buy the book and never go past page 15 or even read it at all. up to this day most people that have it never read it entirely. i just read it again recently and some of his most recent books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:39:32 2011 No.3378775 http://www.sendspace.com/file/6kd9rp there's the link gais.

>>	51 Tue Jul 12 09:40:32 2011 No.3378783 Thank you, i appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:54:32 2011 No.3378823 File: 14 KB, 497x501, 1278185308824.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3378775 thanks good sire

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 09:57:32 2011 No.3378839 >>3378430 Self Esteem: How to get Pussy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:00:32 2011 No.3378851 >>3378839 it would be very popular around here

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:07:32 2011 No.3378867 >>3378851 yeah if you want to be fucking bitches, personally I want something a little less superficial.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:08:32 2011 No.3378869 > implying bitches care about self-esteem > implying worthwhile women don't

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:26:32 2011 No.3378914 File: 103 KB, 471x400, Cleffa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] anybody have any math books? Mainly focusing in math?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:50:32 2011 No.3378988 >>3378914 anyone?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:51:32 2011 No.3378990 subject?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 10:56:32 2011 No.3379006 >>3378990 any subject, just wanna read up on some math. Cool stuff, like The Chinese Room and stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 11:02:32 2011 No.3379032 seriously? no one?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 11:21:32 2011 No.3379098 >>3378499 having searched the name of the book with pdf after it, i havent found a single one of those books. which sort of site would have pdfs of these books on them in the first place though?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 11:42:32 2011 No.3379186 >>3378430 >ctrl+f war and peace >nothing War and Peace. I thought it was going to be a boring walk-fest, but it is one of the best books I've read.

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