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favourite technical books
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Benta on February 22, 2023, 11:54:17 pm ---Yes, there's a wealth of books in German (I'm in the fortunate position of being able to read both English and German), but certainly also in Spanish, Italian, French, Russian etc. where I lack the linguistic skills.
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When I was an undergraduate, a "serious" STEM major (although they didn't call it "STEM" back then) would typically take a "xxxx" for reading knowledge" course, where "xxxx" was either German or Russian. There was a lot of good stuff being published in those languages, and in the pre-computer/pre-internet age you would be missing out on many advancements in your field unless you could read at least one of those languages.
Smokey:
Someone recently mentioned "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic". I picked up an ebay copy. Good stuff. Would recommend to a friend.
RJSV:
'Practical Clock Escapements'. By Laurie Penman
It's another 20 years older now, but that book for me represents a bit of return to mechanical devices and engineered futuristic 'nanotechnology' devices. (Even though that book kept the topic on regular clocks.)
That book was a sort of symbol, there in the office room, surrounded by mechanical prototypes of computer subsystems. Besides, it provided a needed practical grounding, reality check, as I (struggled) to understand the details in the book. Had a pleasant and interesting talk with the book's author, Mr. Penman himself, who I recall was a mechanical engineer.
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