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A public listing of my bookshelf, and what books or sources I’d recommend for reading. I’m trying to read more. This list is being continuously updated.

Enjoying Currently

  • Elementary Fluid Dynamics, Acheson
  • Classical Electrodynamics, John D. Jackson
  • Peru: A short history, David P. Werlich
  • Chinese History and Culture Vol. 1, Ying-Shih Yü

Antilibrary

Books I have acquired and can’t wait to read soon. Oldest to newest.

  • Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Francis F. Chen
  • Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory, Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman
  • Fourier Series, Georgi P. Tolstov
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • Nightwatch, Terence Dickinson, Ken-Hewitt White
  • Partial Differential Equations, Evans
  • The New Psychology of Love, edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Weis
  • PDEs for Scientists and Engineers, Stanley J. Farlow
  • Visual Complex Analysis, Tristan Needham
  • Ideal MHD, Freidberg
  • A Brief on Tensor Analysis, James G. Simmonds
  • Wojna Futbalowa, Ryszard Kapuśćiński
  • Cesarz. Ryszard Kapuśćiński
  • Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites, O. Richard Norton and Lawrence A. Chitwood

Recommended Shelf

Digital sources of literature worth peeking into. Max Planck Research Max Planck Publications APS Review Letters National Geographic

Books

These are, admittedly by my own taste, the books I’d consider worth recommending.

2026

  • How Countries go Broke, Ray Dailo
  • God created the integers, with commentary by Stephen Hawking1

2025

  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Steven Strogatz2
  • The Variational Principles of Mechanics, Cornelius Lanczos
  • Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems, Michael Cros and Henry Greenside
  • Complex Variables and Applications, Brown and Churchill
  • Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang

Pre-2024

  • An Introduction to Thermal Physics, Daniel Schroeder
  • Introduction to Electrodynamics, Griffiths
  • Principles, Ray Dailo
  • Ikigai, García and Miralles
  • Letters from an Astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  • The Feynman lectures on Physics Volume 2: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter, Feynman, Leighton, Sands
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie3
  • The Feynman lectures on Physics Volume 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat, Feynman, Leighton, Sands
  • Calculus, George B. Thomas4, Joel R. Hass, Christopher Heil, Maurice D. Weir, Przemysław Bogacki
  • A brief history of time, Stephen Hawking
  • Beyond the god particle, Leon M. Ledermann[
  • Never split the difference, Chris Voss

Footnotes

  1. Although a collection of existing texts, rather than original writings, this book summarises translations of the monumental publications that contributed to the development of mathematics. It fascinate me to scrutinise the elaborate yet dazzling formulations of transcendental concepts that these grande Luminaries postulated with all but a pencil, a mind, and simple paper. The book itself is so so, the papers within behold a piece of pure human knowledge. ↩

  2. A beautiful textbook. So excited for the day on which I’ll find a moment to endorse the last chapters on Attractors and fractals I haven’t finished yet. The problems are interesting and original. One can see that this book is written with pure passion. ↩

  3. A long time ago. The few things I can still remember from this old book are vivid descriptions of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt and how he would stay up late the night before expecting a visitor, reading up on the subject he knew his guest was particularly interested in, so he could talk about what they treasured most, and a mention of Franklin D. Roosevelt remembering names and tiny personal quirks about every person he’d meet, (even the ever-so insignificant one’s in his life) to make their day. ↩

  4. This book changed my life. It is what got me through a redefining period of isolation. I never bought a physical copy and can vividly remember slouching for hours into the night in front of my little MacBook’s overheated screen transferring statements onto an arsenal of yellow poorly-sticking post-it notes that ever so often fell from the deep-blue wall in front of me, accumulating about one hundred of them at a time. Thomas’ Calculus took me about seven months to work cover-to-cover. After that, a new chapter began. ↩

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