brian howell

Currently reading:

  1. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Braid - Douglas Hofstadter (more like eternal read)
  2. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Personal Library

Here a list of books that have had a great influence on the way I see the world at different stages in my life, enough to procure a hard copy, annotate, and re-read over and over.

Most influential:

  1. Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb
  2. The Worldly Philosophers - Robert Heilbroner
  3. The Dictator's Handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  4. The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
  5. Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
  6. The Changing World Order - Ray Dalio
  7. Zero to One - Peter Thiel
  8. A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
  9. Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World - Irene Vallejo
  10. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
  11. The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
  12. Homodeus - Yuval Noah Harari
  13. The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
  14. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  15. Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb
  16. The Best Writing on Mathematics - Mircea Pitici
  17. Einstein - Walter Isaacson
  18. Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
  19. Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
  20. Origin Story - David Christian

Textbook faves:

  1. Convex Optimization - Stephen Boyd
  2. Algorithms for Optimization - Mykel Kochenderfer
  3. Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Mykel Kochenderfer
  4. Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning - Carl Edward Rasmussen
  5. The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman
  6. Optimization Models - Giuseppe C. Calafiore and Laurent El Ghaoui
  7. Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations - Randall J. LeVeque
  8. A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews - Xinfeng Zhou
  9. Gardner's Art Through the Ages - Fred S. Kleiner
  10. Physical Chemistry for Engineers - James Patterson
  11. Continuum Mechanics: Concise Theory and Problems - P. Chadwick
  12. Optimal Control Theory - Donald E. Kirk

Fiction faves:

  1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Who Played with Fire - Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
  2. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
  3. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  4. The Fellowship of the Ring - The Two Towers - The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
  6. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
  7. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  9. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  10. The Martian - Andy Weir
  11. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee