roland comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 04 March 2010 08:36:28PM *  3 points [-]

List with all the great books and videos

Recently I've read a few articles that mentioned the importance of reading the classic works, like the Feynman lectures on physics. But, where can I find those? Wouldn't it be nice if we had a central place, maybe wikipedia where you can find a list of all the great books, videolectures, web pages divided by field(physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, etc...)? So if someone wants to know what he has to read to get a good understanding of the basic knowledge of any field he will have a place to look it up. It doesn't necessarily need to have the actual works, but at least a pointer to them.

Is there such a comprehensive list somewhere?

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 12 March 2010 11:57:37AM 1 point [-]

every time someone tries to make such a list collaboratively much of the effort diffuses into arguments over inclusion eventually (see wikipedia).