Portal:Erics Most Important Set of Books

Mathematics

 * Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
 * Einstein Manifolds by Besse
 * Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
 * Road to Reality by Penrose
 * Gravitation, Gauge Theories And Differential Geometry Eguchi, Gilkey, and Hansen 1980
 * Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak
 * Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators by Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, and Nicole Berline
 * Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott
 * Morse Theory / Characteristic Classes by Milnor
 * Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians by Anthony Sudbery

Biology

 * Double Helix by James D. Watson

History of Science

 * Science Since Babylon by Derek de Solla Price

From Eric's bookshelves
additional books that changed Eric's life:

1st (Top) Shelf:

 * Turkish Phrase Book
 * Russian Course
 * The Loom of Language by Bodmer and Hogben
 * Spoken and Written Hindi by Fairbanks and Misra
 * Teach Yourself Hindi
 * A Guide to Latex by Kopka and Daly
 * Turkish Grammar
 * Everyday Indonesian
 * Colloquial Turkish
 * Hindi & Urdu
 * Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
 * Basic Algebra I
 * The Ideas of Particle Physics by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
 * Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
 * Introduction to ? Field Theory ?
 * Supermanifolds: Second Edition
 * General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
 * Differential Topology
 * Elements of the Theory of Computation by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
 * Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas
 * A History of Economic Theory
 * Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
 * Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
 * Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
 * More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
 * The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
 * Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
 * Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
 * Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
 * More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
 * The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
 * The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes

2nd Shelf:

 * Introduction to Linear Algebra
 * Modern Elementary Particle Physics
 * Introduction to Superstrings
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V
 * Principles of Quantum Mechanics
 * The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II
 * An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory
 * Calculus on Manifolds
 * Shelter Island II
 * Topology and Analysis
 * Representations of Compact Lie Groups
 * Lie Algebras in Particle Physics
 * Grand Unified Theories
 * Quantum Field Theory and Topology
 * Essential Relativity
 * Modern Geometry I
 * Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
 * Analysis, Manifolds and Physics
 * Concepts of Particle Physics
 * General Relativity for Mathematicians
 * Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
 * Analysis, Manifolds and Physics
 * Concepts of Particle Physics
 * General Relativity for Mathematicians
 * Concepts of Particle Physics
 * General Relativity for Mathematicians

3rd Shelf:

 * 36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
 * Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
 * Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers?
 * Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
 * The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra
 * The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose by S. A. Huggett (Editor), L. J. Mason (Editor), K. P. Tod (Editor), S. T. Tsou (Editor), N. M. J. Woodhouse (Editor)
 * QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber
 * Gravitation
 * Encyclopedia of Cosmology
 * Encyclopedia of Physics
 * Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in General Space-Time
 * Advanced Scientific Computation
 * The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
 * The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
 * Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
 * A Literary Companion to Science
 * The True Believer
 * The Denial of Death
 * The Jazz of Physics (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
 * Ringside
 * Out of My Later Years
 * Out of My Later Years

4th (Bottom) Shelf:

 * Einstein's Dream
 * Makam
 * Save the Cat!
 * The Theoretical Minimum
 * Quantum Mechanics
 * The Diary of Anais Nin
 * Symmetry
 * 100 Great Operas
 * Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions
 * Eat the Rich
 * The Diary of Anais Nin (Another double - different edition)
 * The Annotated Alice
 * Bloodlands
 * I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious"
 * Give War a Chance
 * Age and Guile
 * Necessary Illusions
 * Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
 * Daemon
 * Father to Son
 * Give War a Chance
 * Age and Guile
 * Necessary Illusions
 * Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
 * Daemon
 * Father to Son
 * Daemon
 * Father to Son