library

Worth my time (and, with any luck, yours).

Papers I keep coming back to

Compressed Sensing— David L. Donoho IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2006

Finding Structure with Randomness: Probabilistic Algorithms for Constructing Approximate Matrix Decompositions— N. Halko, P. G. Martinsson, and J. A. Tropp SIAM Review, 2011

Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components— John von Neumann Automata Studies, Princeton University Press, 1956

Books

An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1— William Feller Wiley, 3rd ed. 1968

Matrix Mathematics: Theory, Facts, and Formulas— Dennis S. Bernstein Princeton University Press, 2nd ed. 2009

Caravaggio. The Complete Works— Sebastian Schütze Taschen

Counterexamples in Analysis— Bernard R. Gelbaum and John M. H. Olmsted Dover

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information— Edward R. Tufte Graphics Press, 2nd ed. 2001

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy— Douglas Adams Pan Books, 1979

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn— Richard W. Hamming Stripe Press, 2020 (orig. 1996)

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End— Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books, 2014

The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband— Paul J. Nahin Princeton University Press, 2024

Kolmogorov's Heritage in Mathematics— Éric Charpentier, Annick Lesne, and Nikolaï K. Nikolski (eds.) Springer, 2007

Kolmogorov in Perspective— Translated by Harold H. McFaden AMS & LMS, History of Mathematics vol. 20, 2000

YouTube

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Podcasts

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast

Geschichten aus der Geschichte Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast