Well now. It appears that blogger is doing something amusing with multibyte characters, or something. Or perhaps I'm doing something wrong with encodings/charsets. !$^#^%$#%^&#,!!!!11one!
Saturday, November 22, 2003
About Me
- Name: a. geon
- Location: United States
You know what I love most about the net? It's that on the world wide Intarweb, nobody knows you're a dog.
Previous Posts
- Oh, sweet. I've learned how to write in Japanese ...
- Today's physics class was fun, in a roller coaster...
- For some reason my math homework was somewhat hard...
- So I had a fun time in my Japanese class Monday mo...
- A snippet from Tennyson's Ulysses: The long day...
- Oh yes. If I have the time and inclination, I rea...
- Ooh. Blogger's updated their interface. Shiny. ...
- Ok, this is pretty cool. I'm currently testing ou...
- Oh, and I almost forgot. It's now official: I'm ...
- I'm going to avoid surfing the web using IE from n...
Linkage
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Reading List
Visual Complex Analysis, by Tristan Needham -- an absolutely fantastic book, highest possible recommendation to anyone with calculus who likes pictures. Reads better than a novel.
The Way of Analysis, by Strichartz -- Heavy going at times, but recommended - real analysis is damn useful, and this book does a good job of presenting it.
Comprehensive Intro. to Differential Geometry, by Spivak -- beautiful, enlightening, highly recommended, but be warned, it is very challenging particularly for people like me who haven't had much prior exposure to highly rigorous texts.
Gauge Fields, Knots, and Gravity, by Baez and Munian -- another stunning, engrossing, entertaining book. It goes on a wild adventure ride, starting from Maxwell's Equations, to some differential geometry, to 'gauge fields' and the Yang-Mills equations, to knots, and then to general relativity. Simply outstanding.
Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics, by Schutz - just got this, to help me deal with Spivak's text. Looks good so far, but haven't read nearly enough to give a recommendation.
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