DRMacIver's Notebook
Book list from CUP.
Book list from CUP.
I have a habit for stopping myself from buying too many books in book stores: When I see a book that I want but am unsure about, I go “Oh that looks interesting” and take a photo of the book instead of buying it. I try to make sure when doing this I always buy at least one or two books so I don’t feel like I’m ripping the store off, but it curbs the worst of the spending spree impulse.
Anyway I was in Cambridge University Press book store yesterday. The following are the books I noted as looking interesting but probably available via my university library:
- Geometry and topological inference - Boissonnat et al.
- High-Dimensional Probability - Vershynin
- A student’s guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians - Hamill
- Reporting Results - A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists - Van Aken and Hosford
- Statistical Inference as Severe Testing - Mayo
- Creative Mathematics - Beardon
- Subjective Probability - Jeffrey
- Butcher’s Copy-Editing - Butcher et al.
- The Reader’s Brain - Douglas
- Handbook for Academic Authors - Luey
- Writing Sucessful Academic Books - Haynes
The books I actually bought were:
- Learn to write badly - Billig
- Resilience - Southwick and Charney
I’m currently about halfway through “Learn to write badly”. It’s both very interesting and not at all what it sounds like.