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• Note 17: Cesare Emiliani, The Scientific Companion: Exploring the Physical World with Facts, Figures and Formulas. 2nd Edition. 1995 ISBN 0-471-13324-8

Contents 1 Biology 1.1 Genetics 2 Cognitive science 3 Cryptography 4 Medicine 5 Natural History 6 Paleontology 7 Mathematics 8 Physics 9 Psychology

[edit] Biology

• Biology (fifth edition), Neil A. Campbell, et al., 1999. (Neutrality^talk)
• Biology, 3rd ed, Roberts, 1982. (Joe D (t))
• Biochemistry, 2nd ed, Garrett & Grisham, 2002. (Joe D)
• Plant Physiology, 3rd ed, Taiz & Zeiger, 2003. (Joe D)
• Animal Physiology, 3rd ed, Schmidt-Nielsen, 1989. (Joe D)
• Basic Pathology, 3rd ed, Lakhani et al, 2003. (Joe D)
• Basic Microbiology, 7th ed, Volk, 1992. (Joe D)
• Molecular Cell Biology, 3rd ed, Lodish et al, 1995. (Joe D (t))
• Statistical Methods in Biology, 3rd ed, Bailey, 1995. (Joe D (t))
• Many misc pop-sci books on biology (Joe D).

[edit] Genetics

• iGenetics, P.J. Russel, 2003. (Joe D)
• Principles of Gene Manipulation, 3rd ed, Old & Primrose, 1985. (Joe D (t))
• Genetic Analysis 4th ed, Suzuki et al, 2000. (Joe D)
• Gene Cloning 3rd ed, T.A. Brown, 1996. (Joe D (t))

[edit] Cognitive science

• Note 6: Daniel C. Dennett Consciousness Explained Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-18065-3

[edit] Cryptography

• Codes, Ciphers & other Cryptic & Clandestine Communications, Fred B. Wrixon, 1998 (Smári)

[edit] Medicine

The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, 1997 ed., Kunz, et al. (Neutrality)

[edit] Natural History

• Book of North American Birds, Cassidy, et al., 1990. (Neutrality)
• The Encyclopedia of dog Breeds, Juliette Cunliffe, 1999. (Neutrality)
• A Handguide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe, Wilkinson & Mitchell, 1985. (Joe D (t))

[edit] Paleontology

• British Palaeozoic Fossils 2nd ed, BMNH, 1966. (Joe D (t))
• British Mesozoic Fossils 3rd ed, BMNH, 1967. (Joe D (t))
• British Caenozoic Fossils 3rd ed, BMNH, 1968. (Joe D (t))
• Many misc books on hominid paleontology (Joe D (t))

[edit] Mathematics

• Thomas' Calculus, 10th ed, Finney, Weir, Giordano, 2003 (Smári)
• Pythagorean Triangles, Dover ed., Waclaw Sierpinski, 2003 (Smári)
• Invitation to Combinatorial Topology, Dover ed., Maurice Fréchet & Ky Fan, 2003 (Smári)
• Alonzo Church 1944 Introduction to Mathematical Logic. Princeton University Press. Text has up to ch. 5, there are at least ten chs. mentioned in the text. ISBN 0-691-02906-7 p.41 mentions the lambda notation. The history of the usage of truth-function is covered, among other terms, in the Introduction chapter. Note 5:
• Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun, eds. Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. New York: Dover, 1972. Note 13:
• Alan Jeffrey and Daniel Zwillinger, editors. Gradshteyn and Ryzhik's Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, sixth edition. Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 0-12-294757-6. Errata. (http://www.mathtable.com/gr) Note 12:

[edit] Physics

• Max Born, Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Dover 1962 Note 14:
• Max Born, Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance. Dover 1964 Library of Congress Card number 64-18840. Note 16:
• Note 1: I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, translators: Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Preceded by A Guide to Newton's Principia, by I.Bernard Cohen. University of California Press 1999 ISBN 0-520-08816-6 ISBN 0-520-08817-4
• I. Bernard Cohen. Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters in Natural Philosophy. Second Ed. 1958,1978 Harvard U. Press. ISBN 0-674-46853 Note 4:
• Stephen Hawking, ed. On the Shoulders of Giants:The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy. 2002 ISBN 0-7624-1348-4 Note 2:
• J.A. Peacock, A.F. Heavens, A.T. Davies (eds.), 1989. Physics of the Early Universe. Proceedings of the 36th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP). ISBN 0905945190. Note 19:
• Roger Penrose, 2004, The Road to Reality, Vintage 2005 ISBN 0-099-44068-7 (Icek)
• Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky eds. 1986, Highlights of Modern Astrophysics: concepts and controversies. ISBN 0-471-82421-6 Note 20:
• Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge U. Press. 1980 ISBN 0-521-27435 Note 3:

[edit] Psychology

• Psychology (fourth edition), Peter Gray, 2001 (Neutrality^talk)