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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Media, 2002
Big, Beautiful and Formidable
I received A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram in July 2002. It sits on a shelf in a place of honor. Occasionally, I take it down and open it as one would an expensive Bible. Someday, I'll really study it. Until then I love its feel, its heft, its marvelous and ...
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition
Michael Sipser
Course Technology, 2005
Running out of superlatives to describe this book
This book has unbelievably clear explanations. Actually it is so good that it makes the lecturer superfluous. For years I felt I did not really understand the proof of the Cook Levin theorem. Sure, I had Garey and Johnson, and I more or less could follow the proof, but ...
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Bioinformatics For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Jean-Michel, Ph. D. Claverie, Cedric, Ph.D. Notredame
For Dummies, 2006
Good
I am a couple years into a PhD in bioinformatics, but this is the book I started with. I knew some biology and some computer science, but I still found a lot of the databases, etc. confusing and the field has a decided lack of simplified documentation (though it is ...
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An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematical ...
Uri Alon
Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006
Great Job
A superb intro to the field. The math is moderate and helpful. Network concepts and their ties to examples and theory are clearly and succinctly presented. This is a textbook but reads easily like a book. Covers key elements while connecting them by at least mention to ...
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Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)
Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin
Prentice Hall, 2008
Great introductions and reference book
I read the first edition of that book and it is terrific. The second edition is much more adapted to current research. Statistical methods in NLP are more detailed and some syntax-based approaches are presented. My specific interest is in machine translation and ...
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Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)
Ira Greenberg
friends of ED, 2007
Inspiring and thorough.
I picked this book up on impulse while about halfway thru the other book "Processing: A Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists". They seemed like books that were too similar, but they are not. This book is aimed more at the individual, whereas the other seems to ...
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing ...
Charles Petzold
Wiley, 2008
should be on every aspiring mathematician's bookshelf
this is a fantastic book. It manages to explain simply and clearly the entirety of turing's landmark paper and providing a thorough grounding on the base mathematical knowledge. though I had taken some set theory in college, I am fairly confident that even a devoted ...
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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in ...
John H. Miller, Scott E. Page
Princeton University Press, 2007
very good introduction to the subject
A nice introduction material. You will learn how complex phenomena are currently studied . I will use this book as an intro material to complex systems in my economics course.
My only complain is that the book scarcelly discuss aplications in social sciences!!! I ...
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Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz
Dover Publications, 1998
A classic...
I won't lie to you: this book is well written but relatively hard to read. The subject is inherently difficult, after all! I highly suggest it, though, because the author is a recognized expert on the field and the price is relatively low. It's worth it even if you ...
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Implementation Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)
Michael New
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008
OEM 10g Grid Control - Finally a current guide
I have worked with OEM for 5 years (starting with 9i). For about a year I have been struggling with OEM 10g Grid Control. It is a powerful complex product that is hard to figure out where all the pieces are and what they do. I read the Oracle manuals, metalink notes, ...
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Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
Peter Dayan, L. F. Abbott
The MIT Press, 2005
Great textbook and reference
This book is certainly the most thorough textbook currently available on many aspects of computational neuroscience. It works very carefully through the fundamental assumptions and equations underlying large tracts of contemporary quantitative analysis in neuroscience. ...
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Python Scripting for Computational Science (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering)
Hans Petter Langtangen
Springer, 2009
Great Suppliment to Numerical methods
When I first got ahold of this book I had just finished learning all the gory details of good numerical codes. But when developing tests for simple cases I found that development went way too slow, so someone suggested I learn Python. This book provides a great ...
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Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
Paul J. Nahin
Princeton University Press, 2008
Delightful book
This is a delightful book showing how probability can be made to come alive by using Monte Carlo simulation. Wonderful examples are given to demonstrate this. A little experience in Excel or Matlab suffices to solve by simulation interesting probability problems ...
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F# for Scientists
Jon Harrop
Wiley-Interscience, 2008
All around outstanding
I wish more books were written at this level of quality. While this book can be used by anybody that wants to get up to speed with F#, it's also well suited for use as a text book for an undergraduate course in applied math or computer science (or reference for a ...
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and ...
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger
Cambridge University Press, 1991
You'll need a light-heart to bear the blacksmith's anvil.
I wonder if two people have ever had so much fun writing a book together as Jean Lave and Etiene Wenger. Lave's choice of a cover illustration supports my point: she found the artwork at a beer-fest while visiting friends and studying in Europe. Lave and Wenger are ...
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