One of my favourite hobbies is reading and studying fascinating maths, physics, and philosophy. On this page I want to give a collection of some books and papers I have read or used in the past/am reading or using at the moment, which I wish to recommend to others. This list contains both textbooks and other academic literature, as well as non-academic literature which I am fond of. The works are listed in chronological order with respect to their publication date.
Philosophy:
- The Handbook (Handbüchlein der Moral), by Epictetus (sometime before 135 AD)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume (1748)
- Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik. Zur Einführung in das Verständnis der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Moritz Schlick (1917)
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russell (1919)
- Fragen der Ethik, Moritz Schlick (1930)
- Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, The Library of Living Philosophers Volume VII edited by P.A. Schilpp (1949)
- Conjectures and Refutations, Karl R. Popper (1963)
- Logic, by Wesley C. Salmon (1963)
Physics Textbooks:
- The Geometry of Kerr Black Holes, by Barrett O’Neill (1995)
- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael A. Nielsen & Isaac L. Chuang (2000)
- Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, by John S. Bell (2004)
Other Physics Literature:
On gravitational physics:
- Null geodesics of the Kerr exterior, by Samuel E. Gralla and Alexandru Lupsasca (Physical Review D, 101(4), Feb 2020)
- Structure of the singular ring in Kerr-like metrics, by Piotr T. Chruściel, Maciej Maliborski, and Nicolás Yunes (Phys. Rev. D, 101:104048, May 2020)
On quantum physics:
- A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden” Variables I & II, by David Bohm (1951)
- A Foundational Principle for Quantum Mechanics, by Anton Zeilinger (1999, https://www.univie.ac.at/qfp/publications3/pdffiles/1999-10.pdf)
- An introduction to measurement based quantum computation, by Richard Jozsa (2005, arXiv:quant-ph/0508124)
- The Free Will Theorem, by John Conway and Simon Kochen (2006)
Non-Academic Literature and Fiction:
- Basically everything by Edgar Allan Poe
- Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (1922)
- LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii, by Victor Klemperer (1947)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (1949)
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954/1955)