The soul of a new machine -excellent computer engineering - great intro
Zen and the Art of MC maintenance - poor engineering - great philosophy
making of the atomic bomb - excellent
Atlas Shrugged - improbable plot - melodrama but an interesting theme/idea
fountainhead - more of the same -...
I use TK as a quick prototyping programming language. It's easy to change, easy to plot the results and all iteractive. I seldom use its solving capability. There is a bit of a learning curve but I can implement and test most math models very quickly. Cut and past plots into powerpoint and...