Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? ↗
The books people recommended
2018-09-30 · 850 points · 272 comments · 82 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
- 5Algorithm Design
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- 4Physically Based Rendering
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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
3 here · 71 all-time · #47 overall
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- 3On Food and Cooking
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- 2Convex Optimization
- 2Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- 2Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
- 2The DevOps Handbook
- 2Real-Time Rendering
Real-Time Rendering
Tomas Akenine-Moller; Eric Haines; Naty Hoffman
2 here · 7 all-time · #1018 overall
- 2The Art of Software Security Assessment
- 2Digital Signal Processing
- 2Linux: What Every Superuser Should Know
Linux: What Every Superuser Should Know
2 here · 3 all-time · #2571 overall
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- 1Crossing the Chasm
- 1Effective Java
- 1Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi
1 here · 16 all-time · #409 overall
- 1Trading and Exchanges
- 1Visual Complex Analysis
- 1Types and Programming Languages
- 1Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
- 1Introduction to Linear Algebra
- 1Hacking
- 1Site Reliability Engineering
- 1Abstract Algebra
- 1Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
1 here · 13 all-time · #505 overall
- 1Introduction to Statistical Learning
Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
1 here · 12 all-time · #534 overall
- 1Computer Networks
- 1Calculus on Manifolds
- 1Accelerate
- 1Machine Learning
- 1Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
- 1Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Hubbard
1 here · 10 all-time · #677 overall
- 1Unix Network Programming
- 1Lisp in Small Pieces
- 1Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
- 1Programming Perl
- 1Continuous Delivery
- 1Clean Architecture
- 1Software Foundations
- 1Molecular Biology of the Cell
- 1Probabilistic Robotics
- 1Code Complete 2
- 1Game Engine Architecture
- 1Elements of Information Theory
- 1Market Wizards
- 1Ways of Seeing
- 1Geometry
- 1Implementing Domain Driven Design
- 1ML for the Working Programmer
- 1Programming in Haskell
- 1Salt Fat Acid Heat
- 1The Design and Evolution of C++
- 1Systems Performance
- 1Introduction to Graph Theory
- 1Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
1 here · 4 all-time · #1918 overall
- 1Animator's Survival Kit
- 1How to Cook Everything
- 1Natural Way to Draw
- 1Hedge Fund Market Wizards
- 1New Market Wizards
- 1PiHKAL
- 1Feynman Lectures
- 1Principles of Neural Science
- 1TCPIP Illustrated
TCPIP Illustrated
1 here · 3 all-time · #2499 overall
- 1The Illustrated Network