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About meI am an engineer by training and profession but my grand plan is to be a trainee for the role of a polymath, which explains the kind of books in my library. Movers hate me when they see the amount of books I have.
About my libraryIt consists of mathematics, electric machines, electrical engineering, physics, philosophy, writing, essays, murder mysteries, food and cooking, origami, the game of Go, Asterix and Obelix, Tintin, literature, history, religion, trivia, sports, volleyball, physical training, coaching, travel, photography books.
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Favorite authorsAnthony Bourdain, Andrea Camilleri, Paulo Coelho, Frank Conroy, Hermann Hesse, Gabriel Kron, Pankaj Mishra, Iain Pears, Robert M. Pirsig, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Simon Singh, Rex Stout, E. B. White, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresCarmichael's Bookstore, Dark Star Books, Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle), Left Bank Books, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Powell's Technical Books, Tattered Cover Book Store - Colfax Avenue, Tattered Cover Book Store - Historic LoDo
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my apologies for not replying sooner. i bought Plato's Ghost recently, and have not yet found time to read it. it looks fascinating though. i majored in math in college, so i have some familiarity with the mathematics discussed in the book, and some acquaintance with the history and philosophy of math. this book looks like a very carefully researched and written work, but that's just from glancing through it, not from a close reading. it looks like it will fill in a lot of gaps in my understanding.
as a ph.d. in EE i imagine you've studied DSP. that's an area that i wish i knew more about. do you recommend any text in it especially?
best,
peter
posted by peterdmark at 12:26 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2009
We're up and rolling on the GEB read at http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=33412
Looking forward to your comments. Jim
posted by torus34 at 7:37 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2008