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Here’s a list of the books I received as Christmas gifts this year:
- The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, by Ted Chiang
- Operette Morali, by Giacomo Leopardi
- The Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, by Steve Batterson
- Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy, by Kip S. Thorne
- The Pursuit of the Millenium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, by Norman Cohn
- Knots, Links, Braids and 3-Manifolds: An Introduction to the New Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology, by V.V. Prasolov and A.B. Sossinsky
- Introduction to the h-principle, by Y. Eliashberg and N. Mishachev