Summer 2015 Reading List

Re-reading/watching

• Albala (ed.), The Food History Reader (book on loan)
• Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach (might not be doable)
• Coupland, Microserfs (done 28/5)
• Coupland, Hey, Nostradamus! (done 4/6)
• Rango (2009) (done 22/5)
• Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
• Tong, Statistical Physics
• Landau and Lifschitz, Statistical Physics (might not be doable)
• Stephenson, Snow Crash (done 30/4)
• Stephenson, The Diamond Age (done 25/6)
• Winitzki, Topics in General Relativity
• Stross, Missile Gap (done 14/6)

Novels

• Hugo, Les Miserables (done 25/4)
• Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Egan, Orthogonal trilogy (done 8/4)
• Sinclair, The Jungle
• Coupland, Player One (done 27/5)
• Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• Stephenson, Seveneves (might not be doable)
• Herbert, Dune (done 25/5)
• Herbert, Dune Messiah (done 27/5)
• Herbert, Children of Dune (done 1/6)
• Herbert, God-Emperor of Dune (done 4/6)
• Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark (done 11/6)
• Reynolds, On the Steel Breeze (might not be doable)
• Weir, The Martian (done 12/6)

Not novels

Maths

• Pinter, A Book of Abstract Algebra (done 29/5, but without completing exercises)
• Alaniz, Lie groups and differential equations
• Hydon, Symmetry Methods for Differential Equations: A Beginners' Guide (might not be doable)
• Cannas da Silva, Lecture Notes on Symplectic Geometry (could not finish)

Physics

• Winitzki, Quantum Fields in Classical Backgrounds (might not be doable)
• Tong, Quantum Field Theory
• Tong, Classical Dynamics (done 12/6)
• Chan et al, Some Elementary Gauge Theory Concepts (might not be doable)
• MTW, Gravitation (might not be doable) (could not finish)
• Landau and Lifschitz, Theory of Elasticity (might not be doable)
• Iliadis, Nuclear Physics of Stars (might not be doable)
• Landau and Rumer, What is Relativity?
• SDSS Data Model Documentation
• Peskin and Schroeder, Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Other

• Penrose, The Road to Reality (might not be doable)
• Texture: A Hydrocolloid Recipe Collection (might not be doable)
• Shifman (ed.), Under the Spell of Landau (done 19/5)
• Shul, Sled Driver (done 23/5)
• Fate — core ruleset
• McIntyre, Operation Mincemeat (done 26/5)

Papers

• Ahmad, Saslaw & Bhat (2002, ApJ 571, p576) (done 17/5)
• Ahmad, Saslaw & Malik (2006, ApJ 645, p940) (done 21/5)
• Saslaw & Fang (1996, ApJ 460, p16)
• Sivakoff & Saslaw (2005, ApJ 626, p795)
• Yang & Saslaw (2011, ApJ 729, p123)
• Hydon (2005, doi:10.1002/qua.20749) (done 22/5)
• Brown (2014, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00349)
• Carlsson (2009, AMS 46.2:255-308) (done 5/6, must reread)
• Kneib & Natarajan (2011, arXiv:1202.0185) (might not be doable)
• Huang, Low & Tung, Class. Quantum. Grav. 29, 155014 (2012) (done 27/5, should read again)
• Huang, Low & Tung, IJMPA 27, 1250154 (2012) (done 12/6, should reread)
• Totsuji & Kihara (1969, Pub. ASJ 21:221)
• Shewchuck, An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method without the Agonizing Pain (done 25/6)

Movies

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) (done 21/5)
• Unlucky Plaza (2014) (done 11/5)
• The Search for General Tso (2014)
• Jupiter Ascending (2015) (done 22/5)
• Frozen (2013) (done 30/6)
• The Song of the Sea (2014) (done 1/7)
• Das Leben der Anderen (2006) (done 25/7)
• Inside Out (2015)

TV Shows

• Lie to Me (2009-2011) (done 19/5)
• Adventure Time Season 7 (done 6/6)
• Sherlock (Series 3 ep. 3) (done 12/6)
• 《舌尖上的中国》 (2012) (done 29/5)
• Q. I. (ALL OF IT) (might not be doable) (could not finish)
• Introduction to Representation Theory

Others

• Stoppard, Arcadia (done 31/7)

I'm open to suggestions right now!