I wanted to say that if you study CS at an University you will most likely read many 'fundamental' books. I find it funny 'Structure and Interpretation of Comp

I wanted to say that if you study CS at an University you will most likely read many 'fundamental' books. I find it funny 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' is considered fundamental when it's basically an MIT textbook. Presumably it's a very good textbook, but it's not fundamental because the rest of the world doesn't really study it. The world does study Aristotle. CS is also a wide field (and I presume you said this on purpose to separate the software engineering books?). Something by Chomsky for formal grammars comes to mind.