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 -
- Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
- The Code Book - Simon Singh
- A beautiful mind - Sylvia Nasar
- The Man who loved only numbers - Paul Hoffman
- The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
- Fingerprints - Colin Beaven
- Can Reindeer fly? - Roger Highfield
- Mendeleyev's Dream - Paul Strathern
- Snowball earth - Gabrielle Walker
- The fifth miracle - Paul Davies
- Strange beauty - George Jonson
- The Cogwheel Brain - Doron Swade
- The making of the atomic bomb - Richard Rhodes
- Chaos - James Gleick
- Flatland - Edwin. A. Abbott
- A Mathematician's apology - G. H. Hardy
- Our final century - Martin Rees
- The surgeon of Crowthrone - Simon Winchester
- The Pahntom Tollboth - Norton Juster
- Roses In December - M. C. Chagla
- Artificial Intellegence and Natural man - Margaret. A. Boden
- Dimensions of creativity - Margaret. A. Boden
- The Philosophy of Artificial Life - Margaret. A. Boden
- Swami Rama - Swami Ajaya
- The Traditions of The Himalyan Masters - Pandit Rajamani Tigumant
- The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
- Theories of Everything - Joh. D. Barrow
- Don't You Have time to Think - Richard Feynman
- Narrative - Fredrick Douglars
- Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro - Samuel Ringold Ward
- The Fugitive Blacksmith - J. W. C. Pennigton
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Phew.....Bouncer
Both Santosh & I second you on that, Heh!
Thanks a Ton for doing this Pranjal !
hope some help arrives from some where :-)
Cheers!
Santosh
Anytime! I do hope you're able to get some good suggestions :)!
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
Heh! I'll take that advice :)!
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