What’s the most wonderful textbook you’ve ever read?
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A few for me:
+ The Feynman Lectures on Physics
+ Sean Carroll’s book on general relativity
+ David Griffiths on electromagnetism
+ The Molecular Biology of the Cell
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And:
+ The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
+ Taylor and Wheeler, Spacetime Physics (2nd ed more than later!)
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Thanks everyone, the suggestions have been wonderful!
One extra from me: Asher Peres's wonderful book about quantum theory!
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Incidentally, it'd be nice to extract all the replies & QTs to this into a doc, and then try using GPT4 to extract all the unique books, and order them by number of recommendations. If anyone knows how to do step 1, that'd be great!
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The text is here. Too long for the ChatGPT context window, but not too long for someone with API access! Can someone with API access summarize? Maybe using a prompt like this (or better):
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Took about 5 min to copy paste and some find and replace the fluff. docs.google.com/document/d/1WU Many people shared images of the books. Don't now how to deal with that.
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Hacker News thread riffing on this question, many interesting-looking suggestions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359291
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Fascinating. It looks like it's been repeatedly flagged. Pretty funny, considering the guidelines.
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