Name your major and the ONE textbook or set of textbooks that a smart beginner can read to give you the best basic introduction to the topic. As a reference guide for aspiring broadly knowledgeable polymaths
Ideally this thread should have single-textbook introductions to the babby level broad basics of all majors such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Law, Political Science etc.
>Get out, the brainlet typed, on a machine whose inner workings he does not comprehend, because he thinks it's just for brainlets and he "could learn it if he wanted to"
Jonathan Cook
>t. stereotype CS major taking credit for EE
Connor Collins
>EE >The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz
Bentley Bailey
>brainlet couldn’t pass a graduate level analysis or algorithms class. >thinks CS is all programming >would fail many upper level math intensive proof theoretic CS course’s they rely on advance math. >brainlet never heard of Homopty Type Theory >brainlet doesn’t know category theory >brainlet doesn’t into Algebriac topology
Landon Green
>Homopty Type Theory literally a meme
Julian Hughes
A meme worth studying. Get up on my PL level
Jose Hernandez
>Implying computers with no software on them are anything more than bricks
Levi Nguyen
>physics >Feynman lectures
What I like about them is that you can read them more like a novel than a textbook if you just want to get an idea of what's going on, but they also have all the content you'd need from intro physics courses.
Austin Nguyen
already kind of done: Veeky Forums-science.wikia.com/wiki/Veeky Forums_Wiki
Noah Harris
Yep. This is what I was thinking.
Samuel Hall
> Implying CS majors know algebraic topology, category, or homotopy type theory
Nicholas Hughes
pic related is a meme
John Hill
>cs These books are the basic prerequisites.
Levi Morris
>pinter
Landon Foster
pinter's for normies. go for dummit and foote
Isaac Rivera
We don't need the most thorough treatment of abstract algebra, just something to serve as a bridge between linear algebra and category theory. For that purpose Pinter is good enough for computer science education.
William Perez
Literally this
>Any reasonably smart undergrad with some knowledge in group theory could work this out easily >It gives an introduction to all the new topics, making the book incredibly self contained >Gives problems not for the sake of just understanding concepts but has problems at the end of each chapter for understanding how to manipulate concepts for different situations
Joshua Torres
ITT: call a book a meme
Leo Parker
My major is quick maffs.
I would recommend Spivak's differential geometry (all volumes), because meme covers.