The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard W. Hamming
Hamming’s legendary Naval Postgraduate course distilled into a book: how to choose problems, how to think across decades, and why the best scientists train themselves like athletes. Wide-ranging and quietly intense.
About the author
Richard W. Hamming was a mathematician at Bell Labs who worked on the Manhattan Project; his name lives on in Hamming codes and Hamming distance.