Eee! Books!
Went to the bookstore today.
Came home with...
Feynman Lectures on Physics, which was on the Scratch-n-Dent table, $30 because there were two drops of black ink on the nice red box cover. Also includes Feynman's Tips on Physics, three review lectures and an additional lecture that were not included in the main set. This is GORGEOUS, people. It's a pity it's so expensive, and usually only known of by those of us who are already science nuts. It would make an excellent self-teaching tool, along with a book of problems--that's what I'm intending to use it for, along with REA's Problem Solver: Physics or some such.
Mathematics for Nonmathematicians, by Morris Kline. Dover reprint of a 1960's liberal arts math book, which includes a bit of everything up through second-semester calculus (the calc is a brief overview). It's designed for liberal arts students, so it includes a lot of math and science history, as well, and how the different types of math apply to liberal arts/the real world. Here is much LOVE on Dover reprints. I also have Pauling's General Chemistry, Bohm's Quantum Theory, and Einstein et al.'s Principle of Relativity from them. All of these (except the Einstein) are former college textbooks, and all of them were acquired for less than $20 apiece. I LOVE THEM.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott. There was a Dover $1.50 edition, but there was also the nice Princeton Science Library edition that had a nice introduction that talked about the historical and scientific problems the book discussed, which was $9.00. I ended up with the PSL edition. PSL is another series I like, that aims to make scientific publications of note available at a less expensive price. I have their Hawking and Penrose On the Nature of Space and Time, which is a series of lectures during which Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose get into an argument about black holes, relativity, and quantum theory. (If anyone here likes physics or advanced math, or is in need of new arm weights, I highly recommend Penrose's The Road to Reality. It is MAGNIFICENT, and at $45, is quite a bargain for the amount of material it goes through. This could easily have been priced as a textbook.) Other things I want from the Princeton Science Library series include Feynman's QED (Quantum Electrodynamics, which was Feynman's own creation) and J.C. Polkinghorne's The Quantum World, which is supposed to be one of the best discussions thereof.
Am working on writing, I promise. And Girls Bravo is HILARIOUS. Am also self-studying Latin, along with Chemistry I and Precalculus (one-semester version) at TCC.
Came home with...
Feynman Lectures on Physics, which was on the Scratch-n-Dent table, $30 because there were two drops of black ink on the nice red box cover. Also includes Feynman's Tips on Physics, three review lectures and an additional lecture that were not included in the main set. This is GORGEOUS, people. It's a pity it's so expensive, and usually only known of by those of us who are already science nuts. It would make an excellent self-teaching tool, along with a book of problems--that's what I'm intending to use it for, along with REA's Problem Solver: Physics or some such.
Mathematics for Nonmathematicians, by Morris Kline. Dover reprint of a 1960's liberal arts math book, which includes a bit of everything up through second-semester calculus (the calc is a brief overview). It's designed for liberal arts students, so it includes a lot of math and science history, as well, and how the different types of math apply to liberal arts/the real world. Here is much LOVE on Dover reprints. I also have Pauling's General Chemistry, Bohm's Quantum Theory, and Einstein et al.'s Principle of Relativity from them. All of these (except the Einstein) are former college textbooks, and all of them were acquired for less than $20 apiece. I LOVE THEM.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott. There was a Dover $1.50 edition, but there was also the nice Princeton Science Library edition that had a nice introduction that talked about the historical and scientific problems the book discussed, which was $9.00. I ended up with the PSL edition. PSL is another series I like, that aims to make scientific publications of note available at a less expensive price. I have their Hawking and Penrose On the Nature of Space and Time, which is a series of lectures during which Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose get into an argument about black holes, relativity, and quantum theory. (If anyone here likes physics or advanced math, or is in need of new arm weights, I highly recommend Penrose's The Road to Reality. It is MAGNIFICENT, and at $45, is quite a bargain for the amount of material it goes through. This could easily have been priced as a textbook.) Other things I want from the Princeton Science Library series include Feynman's QED (Quantum Electrodynamics, which was Feynman's own creation) and J.C. Polkinghorne's The Quantum World, which is supposed to be one of the best discussions thereof.
Am working on writing, I promise. And Girls Bravo is HILARIOUS. Am also self-studying Latin, along with Chemistry I and Precalculus (one-semester version) at TCC.