Homepage of Amitabha Ghosh

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." Richard P. Feynman, Physicist, Noble Laureate.

Amitabha Ghosh

Ph.D. Candidate

Autonomous Networks Research Group
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Email: amitabhg@usc.edu

Office:

Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 419
3710 S. McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Ph. (213) 740 3759

Last updated: May 10, 2009.

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I have always wanted to maintain a list of books that I read in the recent past or have been reading at present. Here is a first cut of what I remember. I have put a tag-line for each of them so it gives you a rough idea of what the book is about. My general preference these days is to read science and non-fiction, biographies, politics, and whatever interests me at different points in time. (I am not going to list any of the fictions here, we all read a lot of those).

Books

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwell. (presently reading)

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell.

The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss by M. B. W. Tent.

The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid by Michael Alley.

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character (Contains: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman) by Richard P. Feynman.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman.

No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman by Richard P. Feynman, Christopher Sykes.

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i (the square root of -1) by Paul J. Nahin.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin.

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking.