Put together a preliminary reading list for summer/college (gotta make use of those dorm bookshelfs somehow)…I wanna be edumacated!
Philosophy
The Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Will to Power, Beyond Good And Evil, Thus Spake Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, etc. – Aligheri Dante
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Hard Times, Bleak House, David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Math/Physics/Programming
Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus
The Elegant Universe
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
A Mathematician’s Apology – G.H. Hardy
Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical Truth – Paul Hoffman
Relativity – Albert Einstein
A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
Euler : The Master of Us All
The Art of Computer Programming
Political Philosophy
The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli (ouch)
The Art of War – Lao Tzu
Dinesh D’Souza, Larry Elder, William J. Bennett, Thomas Sowell.
Something about Benjamin Disraeli?
For Fun
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Butlerian Jihad, House Harkonnen, The Machine Crusade – Brian Herbert
Post suggestions!