"In doing, ability precedes understanding, which precedes representation." -- @Meaningness, inhttps://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult …
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You could check the websites of
@drossbucket and@michael_nielsen; one or both may have a list somewhere. It’s the sort of thing they they think about
There's dozens, though I've never collected them. I quite like Littlewood's Miscellanea. And two of the best bios are Skidelsky on Keynes (get the abridged, "short" version), and Gleick on Feynman.
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Incidentally, for the practice of science as recounted by practitioners, see the astonishing oral history site of the AIP: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories … The Feynman interview is a great place to start - the interviewer, Charles Weiner, does a wonderful job.
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Thank you for reminding me of this site! Only on there 5 minutes and I've already found the original version of a second hand quote from Vera Rubin I really like https://drossbucket.tumblr.com/post/155030032159/have-you-ever-considered-a-career-in-which-you …pic.twitter.com/sdYP7Beu0f
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Interesting, didn't know the Skidelsky bio. I like the Gleick one a lot too. I thought
@Meaningness was looking for something related but slightly different, though, books that are explicitly *about* how to learn a subject? -
(But of course reading the great practitioners in a field, or about them, might be a better way to impart the same thing.)
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