 | Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus by H. M. Schey
Buy used from: $18.00 Excellent math text that sheds insight on those ubiquitous and mysterious operators. Wait until you've had some calculus before reading.
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 | Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $0.95 The best supplement for introductory Quantum Mechanics that I know of. I love it!
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 | Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World (Midland Book) by Martin H. Krieger
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $4.82 A harder book, but worth the effort. Sheds insight on the process of Physics.
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 | Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition by Ayn Rand
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $2.90 You need some philosophy. Don't just ignore it!
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 | The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.30 Enlightening. A nice summary of western thought.
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 | Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $10.49 Very nice reference, but by no means complete. Very informal and easy to read.
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 | On the Shoulders of Giants
Buy used from: $3.47 You should read the originals - or at least parts of the originals! This little dynamite book has five original texts of the scientists for a good price.
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 | A Brief History of Science: As Seen Through the Development of Scientific Instruments by Thomas Crump
Buy used from: $1.10 Enjoyable walk through scientific history. There is a big emphasis on Physics.
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 | Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World by David Berlinski
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $5.24 A Physics bachelor should read at least one Newton biography. This one is breif, but it is detailed and personal.
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 | Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe by Martin Rees
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.20 An excursion into the elegance of describing everything with a few parameters
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 | QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Buy used from: $3.62 A good supplementary text for introductory QM. Though I must admit I don't find Feynman as enlightening as others do - his writing style occasionally leaves something to be desired.
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 | Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist: The Library of Living Philosophers Volume VII
Buy used from: $10.75 A nice collection of original essays. Get it, scan through it, read the ones you like. It's fun.
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 | Galactic Dynamics (Princeton Series in Astrophysics) by James Binney
Buy used from: $13.00 Awesome text - an application of classical mechanics to the complex problem of galaxies
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 | Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (The Ayn Rand Library, Volume 6) by Leonard Peikoff
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $3.99 This book gave me a lot to think about. I agree with a lot of her philosophy, though I am not in that strange "cult." I actively search for problems in her ideas. So should you after the first read
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