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Author of The Art of Doing Science and Engineering and a major figure in numerical analysis, coding theory, and computing research.
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
by Richard W. Hamming · 1997
Richard Hamming's lectures on research taste, scientific method, engineering practice, and learning how to learn.
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Documented citation: Patrick Collison marked The Art of Doing Science and Engineering as particularly great on his official bookshelf.
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