As the room moves when I do, my brain is left behind. I know I want to write something thoughtful and meaningful, but those words are out dancing.
Sitting here in my husband’s new office, I am surrounded by his books. They are for the most part lined up in a topical way. But this row?
God Created the Integers---
The Mathematical Experience
Journey through Genius
Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
Moby Dick
Photons & Atoms
The Twelve Caesars
Voyage to the Heart of Matter
Twelve Best Games of Chess
Acoustic Rock Guitar Bible
A View of the Universe
Paradigms Lost
Poems of Emily Dickinson
Sciencia
How Math Expands the World
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
The Persian Experiment
The Quantum Story
Danger of the Dragons
Killing Patton
Complex Variables
German (Language) Made Simple
As a post requiring thought, this one is simply looking in the mind and at the bookshelves of my beloved. What have you learned about math?
Forget that! What have you learned about the titles of the books and the authors? Did you recognize any title and authors?
When we moved from old place to new place, we had to cull through John's massive collection. Fortunately his collection of books on Chemistry are a little slim.
This is a repost from 2017. My husband's library is still a royal mess.
The collection is impressive and yes I do recognize titles and authors but frankly math and my brain are not ever...have never...been on the same page. I can add and subtract and multiply and divide. I know how to measure for cooking and baking. After that...well I guess I'll just have my much smarter in math hubby help me! Oh, and I can read the numbers on the scale and frankly think that those numbers can't possibly be correct! Ha! Take care!
ReplyDeleteThat is indeed a mix. I need to find that rock guitar Bible.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive! Your husband has a very interesting mind. I know of some of these books and have read one.
ReplyDeleteMost of what many read today is downloaded. No dusting needed, but something wonderful is lost.
I've read three of those works -- Moby-Dick, Emily Dickinson poetry, and Sherlock Holmes. I'm thinking of re-reading Moby-Dick. I must be a masochist.
ReplyDeleteMath, my favorite subject in school (as far as I went). I KNOW the formulas I needed to build that was my extent after dropping out. Of course I recognized Moby Dick, I am almost positive that is the only book listed that I have met. ;-). Oh wait, I like Dickenson have read some of her work. I may have read a little of Sherlock, but not that one,
ReplyDeleteThis one made me think.
Love from a wet NC
Sherry & jack
That really is an interesting bunch of books.
ReplyDeleteI admire your husband's eclectic interests. He is not stuck on any one idea.
ReplyDeleteA fascinating collection - with some old friends and some which scare me.
ReplyDeleteI hope your recovery is going well.
What a varied selection of books. It makes me realise I should read more.
ReplyDeleteMy library is a "royal mess"...so I have no right to give a negative response! :)
ReplyDeleteThat says a lot about your husband. I think he and I would be friends.
ReplyDeleteHe's smart, and he has a sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteI don't recognise any of them, my own books are all fiction.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to some science that is based upon math, like some physics, I find that I can skim over the math. As long as I understand basically what the math is showing about the subject at large I do not have to understand how the math got us there.
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting collection of books.