<p>Can anyone recommend some good science and engineering books? It can be anything from great textbooks to non-fiction books to biographies to just anything science/math/engineering related. </p>
<p>I'm reading Classic Feynman by well, Richard Feynman and I'm loving it. I've ordered Principles of Chemistry by Munowitz (Although it's more of a text), I thinking I'm going to get more chemistry out of it.</p>
<p>Er, may I ask why?I could recommend some to you, but without 4 semesters of advanced physics and math past calc III, you’d be lost.</p>
<p>Feynman is good but don’t be a fool and try to learn physics from the Feynman Lectures. It’s meant as a supplement, not a stand-alone text. The article/short story “Mathematicians Lament” by Lockhart explains a lot about math and why it shouldn’t just be ‘memorize this formula and plug it in’. Anything by George Gamow is wildly popular with aspiring scientists. “On,e Two, Three, Infinity” is quite good and may be just what you’re looking for.</p>
<p>I’m a neuro major and if you’re interested in wacky neurological cases, check out Dr. Oliver Sack’s works, some of which have been made into films (Awakening with Robert DeNiro). Dr. Sacks is a famous neurologist who writes about unique cases he’s worked on, so it’s non-fiction but you don’t really need to know science to understand it. The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat is my favorite, it’s a series of short stories.</p>
<p>Matt Ridley’s Genome is really interesting, highly recommended.</p>
<p>Steven Weinberg does some good writing explaining physics to the non-mathematically inclined.</p>
<p>Calculus by Apostol (It is proof based)
What is Mathematics? by Courant and Robbins
The Road To Reality by Roger Penrose
the two books by Brian Greene</p>
<p>^Calculus by Apostol. I was thinking about getting hands on a copy. Is the way it’s written like Theorem, proof, application? I’m looking for a good book like that. </p>
<p>I’ve heard great things about What is Mathematics? thanks!! 
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<p>MissSilvestris, I’m currently taking Calculus III and I’ve done one semester of classic mechanics calculus based physics. I plan on reading the Feynman lectures and Halliday, Resnick and Krane’s Physics. Why? For pleasure and knowledge. I want to really understand what I’m learning. Thanks.</p>