Name: Strength of materials
ISBN: 9780882754208

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daVe23huDec 2022

"the History of Strength of Materials" By Stephen Timoshenko Dr. Timoshenko, the father of thin shell theory in the field of solids of mechanics outlines accomplishments in this field as related to the conquest of land and wars.

Another along similar lines of technology and war "The Arms of Krupp" William Manchester

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vinaymsOct 2018

(The title of the post must be changed to something more neutral because by answering the poster self declares that they are an expert, which not only seems unlikely of most people, but also makes ones such as yours truly withhold from answering due to the connotations, and requires prefaces of this kind to address their apprehensions.)

Software Engineering

About C++: The Design and Evolution of C++ and The C++ Programming Language, both by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. The first one is a snapshot of his philosophy during early years of C++ and is useful to understand the motivations etc. It provides insight. The second one, after the necessary introduction to the language, shows how he uses C++, or expects to be used, which is interesting in its own way.

About algorithms: Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos. This gives the much needed insight instead of maths equations, data structure implementations or a catalog of what to apply where, which are all good, but are useless without insight.

Mechanical Engineering (ME is a large field, and I will limit to these two books.)

Stephen Timoshenko's two volume Strength of Materials is a seminal work, and still relevant, on a topic that is at the core of mechanical and civil engineering.

Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design deals with designing machine parts, which is in a sense an applied strength of materials topic, and the book addresses that part quite effectively, though not as comprehensively as Timoshenko's. More importantly, the book gives enough motivation and insight for the design process, without which engineers would just be "design monkeys" that use latest CAE packages.

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cpp_frogJun 2022

I have the version of this book in Spanish (Editorial MIR), the translated title is 2000 Problems in Linear Algebra. This publishing house (MIR) doesn't exist anymore but now goes under the name of URSS [0] and publishes modern versions of these same books, at least in Spanish and Russian. It has several books on problem solving, which was probably a pathway to demonstrating true "elite" status in eastern europe at the time (hence the known romanian, hungarian and russian way of teaching). It also contains several books on theory too, be it mathematics, physics or engineering. The important thing with textbooks on theory is, unlike the custom of modern textbooks to have few problems and often disconnected or that require to make a few "leaps" in the sense that the exposition does not clearly pave a way to solve harder problems, the amount of exercises is large and they frequently build on top of one another, thus making learning much more enjoyable in my opinion.

Some books also worth looking at in mathematics:

(1) Anti-Demidovich series

(2) Combinatorial Analysis, Ribnikov

(3) Problem series by Suprun

(4) Probability Theory, Zolotarievskaya

(5) Discrete Mathematics Problems, Evnin

(6) Theory of Surfaces, Finikov

... and several other problem book series for university mathematics.

Engineering (mechanics):

(1) Anti-Mescherski series

(2) Theoretical Mechanics, V. M. Starzhinski

(3) Strength of Materials, Stiopin