Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study? ↗
The books people recommended
2022-03-27 · 569 points · 273 comments · 68 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.
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- 3The Code Book
- 3Proofs and Refutations
- 3Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
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- 2The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 2Inspired
- 2Measurement
- 2Racing the Beam
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- 1The Goal
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- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Randal E. Bryant; David R. O'Hallaron
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- 1The Idea Factory
- 1Statistical Rethinking
- 1The Innovators
- 1Behave
- 1Economics
- 1About Face
- 1Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- 1Being Mortal
- 1An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 1Metaphors We Live By
- 1The DevOps Handbook
- 1Fermat's Enigma
- 1Poor Economics
- 1Programming in Scala
- 1Stuff Matters
- 1Geometry
- 1Philosophy In The Flesh
- 1Origins of Political Order
- 1Lifespan
- 1The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- 1Programming in Haskell
- 1Introduction to Logic
- 1A Mathematician's Lament
- 1Against the Grain
- 1Systems of Survival
- 1Innumeracy
- 1The Accounting Game
- 1Complications
- 1Building a Storybrand
- 1Sync
- 1Overcoming Gravity
- 1The Science of Discworld
- 1What Is Life?
- 1Anatomy of an Epidemic
- 1Threaded Interpretive Languages
- 1Better
- 1Fooling Some of the People All of the Time