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mathematics and compsci reading list
<+elliottcable> Jesus.
<+elliottcable> 27 textbooks in my Amazon cart
<+elliottcable> totaling $US 778.70
<+elliottcable> cheap: Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Timothy Gowers
<+elliottcable> The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Timothy Gowers
<+elliottcable> cheap: Gödel's Proof - Ernest Nagel
<+elliottcable> cheap: Introduction to Logic - Alfred Tarski
<+elliottcable> cheap: A Book of Abstract Algebra: Second Edition - Charles C Pinter
<+elliottcable> cheap: Number Theory (Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics) - George E. Andrews
<+elliottcable> Modern Graph Theory - Bela Bollobas
<+elliottcable> cheap: Introduction to Topology: Third Edition - Bert Mendelson
<+elliottcable> cheap: Introductory Graph Theory - Gary Chartrand
<+elliottcable> The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set (Box Set) - Donald E. Knuth
<+elliottcable> several Fascicles for that set,
<+elliottcable> Hacker's Delight - Henry S. Warren
<+elliottcable> Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) - Ronald L. Graham
<+elliottcable> Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen
<+elliottcable> The Little Schemer - 4th Edition, The Reasoned Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer - Daniel P. Friedman
<+elliottcable> Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) - Harold Abelson
<+elliottcable> (lol yes paperback copy of the SICP)
<+elliottcable> Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) - Alfred V. Aho
<+elliottcable> cheap: Axiomatic Set Theory - Patrick Suppes
<+elliottcable> How to Prove It: A Structured Approach - Daniel J. Velleman
<+elliottcable> cheap: Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
<+elliottcable> cheap: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter
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These books are either also in my cart, or on my bookshelf. +1

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@cloudhead any suggestions? @inimino made some suggestions, and others from the mathematics-locals; happy to take more advice, if it’s in line with my purposes.

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