100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)
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Both personal, and highly detailed, it is an absolute masterpiece and a must read for anyone pursuing a scientific career.
_Dune_ for its role in inspiring the study of ecology would seem more fitting.
It's unfortunate that a didactic text such as H. Beam Piper's novella "Omnilingual" couldn't be considered instead.
(And probably the Pynchon inclusion in the list dovetails with Kurt Vonnegut's.)
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Lot's of people have written books and said they're "stories told by Feynman" but that's not really the same thing as "Feynman dictated this story and reviewed it with the editors..."
Interestingly, Ralph is son of Robert Leighton[2], the caltech physicist who was a contemporary (and peer) of Feynman's and part of the team that transcribed and edited "the Feynman Lectures".
So that's 2 (or 3) of the big books that feynman's said to have written that he was only partially involved with.
And lastly, if my dad were a physicist and I went out of my way to write a book about another physicist, and I went out of my way to describe that other physicist as the best and most coolist physicist ever, there's probably an interesting backstory that's not in the book.
The Wayback version ... unfortunately doesn't seem to fare any better:
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If the list uses ISBNs or similar identifiers, it should be relatively straightforward to create an updated page with links to a source such as OpenLibrary, Worldcat, or Wikimedia's ISBN template (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN>).
Though these don't look like ISBNs...
PALS (Library Technology in Minnesota) is now at <https://www.mnpals.org/>, and there might be a URL migration path there.
A New Kind of Science was published in 2002. Unless the author of this list had access to the future, it would have been hard to include it.
Edit: I missed one on technology that is listed. Still feels meager in comparison to others. But again I am biased :)
Ironically, Knuth has stated that his idea of _Literate Programming_ is more important than TAoCP.
I feel like they picked it because not much original mathematics is published in book form. Most of the work that shaped the century in mathematics was published as papers.
They might also have picked it because Russell published books that are readable by laypeople, so in the unlikely event that someone tried to read Principia Mathematica because of this list, they could put it down and pick something else by Russell to read instead.
Also, I think a list made today would have to include some of the early work on deep learning that happened in the 20th century. Which goes to show that sometimes you don't know what's important until much later on.