RobinZ comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: knb 06 August 2010 03:43:10AM 3 points [-]

Does anyone have any book recommendations for a gifted young teen? My nephew is 13, and he recently blew the lid off of a school-administered IQ test.

For his birthday, I want to give him some books that will inspire him to achieve great things and live a happy life full of hard work. At the very least, I want to give him some good math and science books. He has already has taken algebra, geometry and introductory calculus, so he knows some math already.

Comment author: RobinZ 06 August 2010 03:53:45AM 2 points [-]

My dad's been trying to get me to read the Feynman Lectures for ages - the man's a good writer if your nephew would be interested by physics.