Some people always seem to have the right answer. The kind of people who casually pop up and make a difficult problem seem trivial. These people can be impressive, but the question I am often left with is: "how did you know that?"

It is somehow unsatisfying to just be given the answer, I want to know the backstory. More often than not, that backstory is written in books. Blog posts and Twitter threads are great to get exposure to a new problem or subject, but they can also be shallow treatments. To develop deep knowledge, you need the right reference material.

With this in mind, I offer up my own list of recommended books. If you're coming from a computer science / software engineering background, and want some reading tips on mathematics and physics, then hopefully you will find something of interest.

I was inspired to create this list by Christer Ericson's own book list, and I encourage others to publish theirs, so that we all may benefit!

Also, I moved the blog from Wordpress to Hugo. Please let me know if anything is broken.