Differential Equations & Mathematica, Bill Davis and Jerry Uhl

Been a long damn time since my undergrad uni diffy-q class. This is a computer textbook, better than print in every possible way.

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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, John Derbyshire

Winner of the first Euler Award from the MAA, for advancing pop math appreciation. Good writer. Don't buy it. Arguably a bad human being.

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The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

The trailer for Baz Luhrmann's flick finally prompted me to drag this one out and read it. Yeah. Here's D'Angelo's take.

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The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty, Sam L Savage

A businessmen's book. That is, carefully written for people who aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. Nevertheless, interesting.

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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought, Keith E Stanovich

I'm obsessed with rationality and motivation. However, there is little in this book that isn't covered better by Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon

The kind of book that makes you feel privileged to exist in the very same world, together, that you had opportunity to experience it.

Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian

It's... not quite as good as I'd hoped? Stupidly well researched, but without the smell of cannon smoke and oakum that permeates the film.

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The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin

Nonessential. Craft w/o coherence. Had Heinlein been pinko and literary instead of techno and libertarian, he'd've written a book like this.

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The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

SF is always about the present, never the future. Being too close can obscure. Viewing a bent, twisted world, we see things more clearly.

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Matrices, Geometry, & Mathematica; Bill Davis and Jerry Uhl

This is a linear algebra textbook, but it's not one like you've ever seen before. It is precisely 5.3287 bajillion times better.

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