Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Suggestions Required

Santosh's dad sent him a list of books. He's trying to figure out which ones he should buy for his old man. I've read just one from this list - A Beautiful Mind - and was hoping you guys might suggest some from these -
  1. Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
  2. The Code Book - Simon Singh
  3. A beautiful mind - Sylvia Nasar
  4. The Man who loved only numbers - Paul Hoffman
  5. The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
  6. Fingerprints - Colin Beaven
  7. Can Reindeer fly? - Roger Highfield
  8. Mendeleyev's Dream - Paul Strathern
  9. Snowball earth - Gabrielle Walker
  10. The fifth miracle - Paul Davies
  11. Strange beauty - George Jonson
  12. The Cogwheel Brain - Doron Swade
  13. The making of the atomic bomb - Richard Rhodes
  14. Chaos - James Gleick
  15. Flatland - Edwin. A. Abbott
  16. A Mathematician's apology - G. H. Hardy
  17. Our final century - Martin Rees
  18. The surgeon of Crowthrone - Simon Winchester
  19. The Pahntom Tollboth - Norton Juster
  20. Roses In December - M. C. Chagla
  21. Artificial Intellegence and Natural man - Margaret. A. Boden
  22. Dimensions of creativity - Margaret. A. Boden
  23. The Philosophy of Artificial Life - Margaret. A. Boden
  24. Swami Rama - Swami Ajaya
  25. The Traditions of The Himalyan Masters - Pandit Rajamani Tigumant
  26. The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
  27. Theories of Everything - Joh. D. Barrow
  28. Don't You Have time to Think - Richard Feynman
  29. Narrative - Fredrick Douglars
  30. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro - Samuel Ringold Ward
  31. The Fugitive Blacksmith - J. W. C. Pennigton

6 comments:

Smini said...

Phew.....Bouncer

Pranjal said...

Both Santosh & I second you on that, Heh!

Santosh said...

Thanks a Ton for doing this Pranjal !

hope some help arrives from some where :-)

Cheers!
Santosh

Pranjal said...

Anytime! I do hope you're able to get some good suggestions :)!

happyz said...

a very good suggestion... Buy whatever is available... :) its for your dad and am sure he will be happy to get any from the list... :P

Pranjal said...

Heh! I'll take that advice :)!