Books which are hardly to get.

Nihongo ha koko (In Japanese)

This list is my recommended books for mathematics, science and computer.

Explanatory notes:

Name

example works

• Mathematics
• Science
• Computer
• Computer Graphics

Mathematics

Don Cohen

Changing Shapes with Matrices
I've read this in Japanese (Don Cohen and Noriko Arai).

Kimura, Yoshio

Daigaku ichinensei no tameno omosiro senkeisuugaku (interesting linear system for freshman) Do you know the meaning of eigenvalue or the meaning of matrix? This book describes these things.

Transnational college of lex: Hippo family club

Fourier no bouken.(The adventure of Fourier) I know why the first term of Fourier transfer has '1/2'a0 from this book. There is a English version, ``Who Is Fourier? : A Mathematical Adventure'' by Transnational College of LEX ISBN: 0964350408

Martin Gardner

Aha. Ambidextrous Universe. Even Feynman was glad to read these books.

Hayashi, Susumu

Kobari, Akihiro

Mathematics books (In Japanese)

Shiga, Kouji

Mathematics books (In Japanese)

• Mathematics for high school students. It's good. What is manifold? At least you can catch what it is. Of course, that world is so deep and you should go father. However, you can stand at the starting point.

Nozaki, Akihiro

Mathematics books (In Japanese)

Paul Hoffman

Archimedes' Revenge: This is a great book. It is somehow dangerous book because this book might be able to change my life.
The man who loved only numbers: This is also recommended.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

G\"ODEL, ESCHER, BACH: an Eternal Golden Braid
What a wonderful book! I can not believe that a human can write such a fantastic book.

Tooyama, Hiraku

Mathematics books (In Japanese)

Science

Asari, Yoshitoo

Manga Saiensu (science in cartoon) If many of primary students read his books, I think there is no worry about decreasing scientist.

R.P. Feynmann, Ralph Leighton, Christopher Sykes

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynmann! The Feynman Lectures on Physics and more... All books are recommended. If you want to hear his voice, you can get Six easy pieces and Feynman's lost lecture. If there are other his CD, please inform me. 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine..'

J. Gleick

Genus, Chaos

Brian Green

The elegant universe.

On Being a scientist : Responsible conduct in research

Ikeda, Mitsuo and Ashizawa, Shouko

Why can we see the colors? : written in japanese `Doushite iroha mieru noka?'

Steven M. Casey

Set phasers on stun: and other true tales of design, technology, and human error

Donald A. Norman

Psychology of everyday thing

William Poundstone

The recursive universe. Computer scientists always thinks 'what is computation?'. You can catch a glimpse about the question from this book.

Carl J. Sindermann

`Winning the Games Scientists play,' `Survival Strategies for new scientists. '

Steven M. Casey

Set Phasers on Stun. And other true tales of design, technology, and human error

Computer

• Reading (for understanding computer itself)

  Alan W. Bierman

  Great Ideas in Computer Science : A Gentle Introduction, Second Edition; MIT Press; 04/1997; ISBN: 0262522233
  Do you know how to make a flip-flop by relay? How parallel processing works? This is very easy book however, when you read this book, you get fundamental ideas of computer science. And there are very interesting cartoons in this book. ``twice the programmer'' said the boss... (I read this book in Japanese, so I do not know exactly words.)

  Tom DeMarco and Timothey Lister

  Peopleware: The key of success is a human for a project. Yes, I thought I knew it. But, how easy to fail. I should have read this book earlier. If you read Robert Colwell's The Pentium Chronicles,' I can easy find his project is also successful. 2007-3-6(Tue)

  Hoshino, Tutomu

  Who and how computers invented.

  Donald E. Knuth

  Literate Programming, etc. No need to explain about him to computer scientist as like as no need to explain about Spock to trekky.

  William Poundstone

  I do not know the English title of (Raifu geimu no ucyu -> may be `The universe of life games'?). This book describes Conwey's 2-dimensional celler automaton and other games.

  Gerald M. Weinberg, Donald C. Gause

  Are your lights on?, The secrets of consulting, and more... All books I read are exciting and interesting.

• Architecture

  W. Daniel Hillis

  The connection machine. This book gave me an opportunity to study about massively parallel processing. This book describes one of greatest idea I have ever seen. However, I think TM lacks some kind of structures, hierarchy and thinking about gaps of problems and parallel computers. I think improving these problems makes a massively parallel computer useful tools.

  John L. Hennessy/David A. Patterson

  Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach.
  Whan I decided to belong Nakamura Lab(Tohoku Univ.) of the senior year, Prof. Kobayashi said, first we will read the chapter 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 of this book. This is beginning of my researcher's life.

  David A. Patterson/John L. Hennessy

  Computer Organization and Design.
  I have not read 2nd edition of this book, yet. But the 1st edition is good. Now I am waiting the 2nd edition from the USA.

  Mike Johnson

  Superscaler Microprocessor Design
  If you finished `Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach, ' my next recommended book is this.

  Philip J. Koopman, Jr

  Stack Computers: the new wave
  Please do not say ``Stack machine? That's too old.'' In the embedded area and Java use this architecture since its small code size and so on. PostScript and Forth is also based on the stack machine model. The feature of the stack cache is still interesting for me. Of course, it is very hard to imagine for me that the stack architecture will replace with the register architecture. However, I am still interested in this architecture.

• Language

  Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman

  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs If you can start your programming carrier with this book. I believe you will be happy.

  ``Design Patterns'', Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Addison Wesley (I read this in Japanese.)

  I found that my programming style changes when I read this book. Once I read through whole book, now I read this book as a dictionary.

  ``How to write Parallel Programs (A First Cource), Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter, M.I.T. Press (In Japanese, Heiretu program no tukurikata, Translation by MURAOKA Youichi, Kyouritu Shuppan)

  This is a great book for writing Linda parallel program. There are a lot of suggestions and teachings. However, In Japanese edition, there are some meaningless parts. So, I ordered original English book and waiting now.

  Hidaka TOORU

  Z80 Mashin go Hiden no sho (for people who like Z80)

  Brian W. Kerninghan, P.J. Plauger

  The elements of programming style, Software tools.

  Scott Meyers

  Effective C++

  C++ is difficult. But, when you restrict yourself by some rules, you can write it much better. Large freedom is sometimes difficult for me. I think m4, perl and tcl have more freedom, but they are difficult for me. Java and ruby are rather restricted language, but paradoxically, it is easier for me.

  Martin Fowler

  Refactoring

  Because of test driven programming, you have working code all the time. Also talking about importance of refactoring. I think most of the programmers agree with importance of refactoring, but before I read this book, it is somehow too abstract. Now we have a catalog and concrete procedures to do that. That makes the refactoring solid method instead of house of cards.

• System

  ``Distributed Operating System'', Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN: 0132199084

  If you want to know about distributed system, read this first.
  

  IKNOWTHISISASTUPIDTHINGTODOBUTNEVERTHELESSGOTO LABEL;

  By the way, at Figure 4.32 (Two schedules, including processing and communication) has a careless error? It is very slightly point and no one care about this?

  ``How Debuggers Work''(Japanese), Jonathan B. Rosenberg, YOSHIKAWA Kunio (Translation to Japanese), ASCII ISBN4-7561-1745-7 C3055, 3500 yen

  Debugger is a very important technology. However, I think that technology is not evaluated validly by researchers (especially computer architect). This book is good introduction to who want to know about debuggers implementation, supporting with OS and compiler and processor.

Computer Graphics

There are many good books, it might be a lot of. I could not put them all. It is a bit in detailed, but how to start with this page.