Learning Archives

Books

Note: Some books I'm still in the progress of reading (*) or have it enqueued (**). Some books I might have read cover to cover or just explored certain sections. However, if it's listed here, I vouch for it nonetheless.

CS

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

• A Tour of C++ by the GOAT (Bjarne Stroustrup)

• Inside the Machine by Jon Stokes
• Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS

• The Competitive Programmer’s Handbook by Antti Laaksonen

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred Aho et al.

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

• Database Internals by Alex Petrov

• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

• C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams **

Trading / Finance

• Inside the Black Box by Rishi K. Narang
• Quantitative Trading by Ernest P. Chan
• Option Volatility & Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg *
• Option Market Making by Allen Jan Baird **
• Advances in Active Portfolio Management by Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn **
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel **
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Math / STEM

• The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen *
• Game Theory: An Introduction by Steven Tadelis
• A First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross
• Introduction to Probability Models by Sheldon Ross *
• Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt
• Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler **
• Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer

Personal Enjoyment, Development, & Exploration

• Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
• Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Theodor Geisel (all-time favorite)
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
• The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford
• How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren