Chemistry

What Hacker News says

1. kaycebasquesJan 2025
   My best books of 2024:

   * Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins. Now that I'm into physics I had a hunch that I would now also appreciate chemistry. This book delivered.

   * Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Gail Montero. I recall it just being a really well-written overview of an interesting field.

   * Systemantics by John Gall. Very entertaining musings on why systems fail.

   * Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami. Read this while in Japan. A very strange and interesting noir detective story.

   * All Systems Red by Martha Wells. <3 Murderbot <3

   * Desert Oracle Volume 1 by Ken Layne. American southwest folklore. Read it while in Joshua Tree.

   * There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Biggest brainfuck I've read in a long time, probably ever.

   * Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality by Frank Wilczek. Physics musings from a Nobel winner.

   Show morethread
2. rpmullerSep 2022
   It was Peter Atkins’ lectures in Quantum Mechanics that made me decide to go into Quantum Chemistry, so the book always brings back fond memories.

   For Chemistry I’d also list Pauling’s Nature of the Chemical Bond. And maybe Szabo and Ostlund’s Modern Quantum Chemistry.

   thread
3. GregBuchholzJun 2016
   I haven't yet read it, but have been thinking about getting a copy of "Chemistry: a Very Short Introduction" by Peter Atkins

   http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/03/chemistry-very-sho...

   thread