User:Karthik/Reading

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[edit] Currently Reading

• The Music of the Primes, by Marcus du Sautoy, ISBN 0066210704
• Chaos, by James Gleick
• Men of Mathematics, by E T Bell

[edit] Great Books I've Read

• Six Degrees of Separation, by Duncan Watts
• Linked, by Albert-L�szl� Barab�si, ISBN 0738206679

A phenomenal account of the applications of networks in every walk of life. The account of scale-free networks, their discovery and applications is just fantastic. The afterlink on hierarchical networks and modularity is great as well. One must visit his website at http://www.nd.edu/~alb.

• Fermat's Enigma, by Simon Singh
• Constants of Nature, by James D Barrow
• Flatterland, by Ian Stewart
• The Code Book, by Simon Singh
• The Man Who Knew Infinity, by Robert Kanigel

An absorbing biography of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, with a brief on GH Hardy as well.