Technical books I’ve written about this year

Here are some of the books I’ve mentioned in blog posts this year. One of these books may be just the present for a geek in your life.

This post looks at technical books: math, science, engineering, programming. I’ll have a follow-up post with non-technical books I’ve written about. (Update: here’s the non-technical list.)

Programming

Book	Blog post mentioned in
The Art of Computer Programming	Deserted island books
Effective Computation in Physics	Interview: Anthony Scopatz and Katy Huff
Programming Perl	Graphemes
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python	Rotating PDF pages

Science and engineering

Book	Blog post mentioned in
Strength of Materials	Basic equations of beam deflection
Gravitation	Deserted island books
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission	Key fobs and interstellar space

Math

Book	Blog post mentioned in
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics	The FFT and big data
The Unexpected Hanging	Casting out sevens
Differential geometry	Deserted island books
More Mathematical Morsels	Multiple choice
Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns	Mystery curve
Quaternions and Rotation Sequences	Quaternions in Paradise
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models	Another reason natural logs are natural
Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo	Toy problems
Mathematics without Apologies	Striving for simplicity, arriving at complexity
Calculus on Manifolds	Striving for simplicity, arriving at complexity