Reading List


Math, Statistics and the stuff around it

  1. Euclid’s window - Leonard Mlodinow
    An excellent depection of dimentions into Euclid’s world. From the old Green concepts of Parallel lines to hyperplanes.

  2. Math with Bad drawings - Ben Orlin
    Ben Orlin sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes apply to.

  3. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Christopher M Bishop
    Started my machine learning journey with this book. One of the best free books available out there.

History

  1. Jerusalem: The Biography - Simon Sebag Montefiore
    Jerusalem is the universal city, the shrine of three faiths. From King David to the 21st Century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Isreal-Palestine conflict, Simon Sebag depicts a 3000 year conflict in the holy city . He writes about every conflict and every possible King who tried to rule in the city and how Jerusalem became Jerusalem.

Self Help

  1. Make Time - Jake & John
    Simple techniques that we all know but sometimes fail to implement. A sample and easy read.

Climbing

  1. Alone on the Wall
    Alex Honnold’s climbing thrills in Yousemite narrated by Late David Reberts.

  2. The Push
    Tommy Cladwell writes about his ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, A near death experience in Kyrgyzstan when they where taken hostage by Islamist rebels during a climbing adventure. Tommy later loses his accidently sawed off his finger while building a platform. He later emerges to become a much stronger climber. Probably one of the best book on a climbers journey of Endurance.

German

Some German languages which i found an easy read.

  1. Fast genial
    Ich finde die Diogenes von Benedict Wells ganz einfach und leicht zu lesen. In diesem Roman schreibt er die Geschichte über einem mittellosen Jungen, der versucht sein unbekannter Vater zu finden.

PS : Still a lot to add to the list. Digging my bookshelf one at a time