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Related: do people have good recommendations of "casual" math books for more advanced topics? I.e. ones that an educated reader with a background in math can re
by tgb 6y ago
Related: do people have good recommendations of "casual" math books for more advanced topics? I.e. ones that an educated reader with a background in math can read through in one pass (unlike most textbooks) but nonetheless have real math in them? (And has fun exercises!)
I can start with some. Feynman's Lectures on Computing. Scott Aaronson's Quantum Computing Since Democritus (though it assumes some background knowledge of quantum computing). I think Colin Adam's "The Knot Book" (on knot theory in topology) as well.
- vermarish 6y agoUnderstanding Digital Signal Processing, by Richard G Lyons. It's one of the most accessible books on the topic since it's aimed at undergraduate juniors.
- Koshkin 6y agoThis one is amazing and not to be missed: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm.
- User23 6y agoVisual Complex Analysis. I’d hesitate to call it casual, but it’s extremely accessible to someone with some basic mathematical knowledge.
- auntienomen 6y agoRoger Penrose' book _The Road to Reality_ is pretty good in this respect. It's a little skewed towards geometry (instead of, e.g., Hilbert spaces and operator algebra), but hey, what do you expect from Penrose.
- Koshkin 6y agoHeh, this one is only for casual reading if you are already well-versed in the material. (This is a weird book - the author tends to dwell on simple things and then to rush through complex topics. Not recommended for an uninitiated. His later book, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy, is more accessible but is primarily focused on discussing physics.)
- snicker7 6y agoJohn Baez's blogs (Azimuth, This Weeks Finds) are pretty accessible.
- joycian 6y agoSusskind's Theoretical Minimum series might be to your liking?
- Koshkin 6y agoNot a bad choice really, even though this one is more about physics than math - but hey, what is theoretical physics if not math mostly, right?