Sunday, December 10, 2006

Books that shaped a century

Here is my wish list that I would like to add in my personal library of books.

I picked these books from 100 or so books that shaped a century of science published in American Scientist. You may refer to the above mentioned link for books that have influenced your field of interest in the last century.

My list in the chronological order of publication is as follows:
  1. G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)
  2. John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
  3. Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics (1948)
  4. Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1950)
  5. James Watson, The Double Helix (1968)
  6. Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)
  7. Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

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