Portal:Erics Most Important Set of Books

Mathematics

 * The Shape of Space by Jeffrey R. Weeks
 * 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
 * Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature by Erwin Chargaff
 * The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson
 * The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr

History of Science

 * Science Since Babylon by Derek J. de Solla Price

Evolutionary Theory

 * Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin

Extracted from Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast @43:03 :


 * The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins


 * The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Stephen Jones

Economics

 * More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) by Philip Mirowski
 * The Physics of Wall Street by James Weatherall

From Eric's bookshelves
Twitter photo of Eric's bookshelf:

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
 * Teach Yourself Hindi by Rupert Snell
 * Hindi & Urdu
 * Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
 * Basic Algebra I by Nathan Jacobson
 * The Ideas of Particle Physics by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
 * Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
 * Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Masud Chaichian (Author), Nikolai F. Nelipa (Contributor)
 * Supermanifolds: Second Edition by Bryce DeWitt
 * General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics by Norbert Straumann
 * Quantum Mechanics and Integrals by Feynman and Hibbs
 * Differential Topology by Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack
 * Morse Theory by John Milnor
 * Characteristic Classes by John Willard Milnor & James D. Stasheff
 * 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
 * Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
 * 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:

 * Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer by Necia Cooper
 * Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
 * Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
 * Introduction to Superstrings
 * INVARIANCE THEORY, THE HEAT EQUATION, AND THE ATIYAH-SINGER INDEX THEOREM by Peter B. Gilkey
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV by Michael Spivak
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III by Michael Spivak
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V by Michael Spivak
 * Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
 * The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Hawkins, Ellis, et al.
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I by Michael Spivak
 * A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II by Michael Spivak
 * An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory by K. Moriyasu
 * Calculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak
 * Shelter Island II
 * Topology and Analysis by B. Booss & D. D. Bleecker
 * Representations of Compact Lie Groups
 * Lie Algebras in Particle Physics by Howard Georgi
 * Grand Unified Theories by Graham Ross
 * Quantum Field Theory and Topology by Albert S. Schwartz, E. Yankowsky, S. Levy
 * Essential Relativity by W. Rindler
 * Modern Geometry I by B. A. Dubrovin & S. P. Novikov
 * Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Raoul Bott & Loring W. Tu
 * Analysis, Manifolds and Physics by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat & Cecile DeWitt-Morette
 * Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem by Patrick Shanahan
 * Concepts of Particle Physics by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf
 * General Relativity for Mathematicians by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu
 * Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem by Patrick Shanahan
 * Concepts of Particle Physics by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf
 * General Relativity for Mathematicians by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu

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? by United States Congress
 * 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 by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, & John Archibald Wheeler
 * Encyclopedia of Cosmology by Norriss S. Hetherington
 * Encyclopedia of Physics by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg
 * Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time by Stephen A. Fulling
 * Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation by Richard E. Crandall
 * The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
 * The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
 * The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
 * Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
 * A Literary Companion to Science edited by Walter Gratzer
 * The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
 * The Denial of Death
 * The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
 * Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America by Scott Beekman
 * Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein

4th (Bottom) Shelf:

 * Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
 * Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel
 * Makam by Karl L. Signell
 * Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
 * The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
 * Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
 * The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Six
 * Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
 * 100 Great Operas by Henry W. Simon
 * Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions by Chris Quigg
 * Eat the Rich by P. J. O'Rourke
 * The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three
 * The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
 * The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
 * Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
 * I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious" by Maxwell Nurnberg
 * Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke
 * Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P. J. O'Rourke
 * Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
 * Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann, & Michael Metteer
 * Daemon by Daniel Suarez
 * Father to Son
 * Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
 * Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann, & Michael Metteer
 * Daemon by Daniel Suarez
 * Father to Son
 * Daemon by Daniel Suarez
 * Father to Son