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Engineering:

Third year math phys and its accompanying book (McQuarrie). It blew my mind when I learned McQuarrie is a chemist.

Engineering's role in society:

Schumacher's "Small is beautiful" and "Guide for the perplexed" was the straw finally broke me free of the technocrat worldview. (Although Illich's argument that a car's average speed is 3mph made me question my love for cars)



Chemist here. TIL McQuarrie wrote a mathphys book and engineers read it. His books on Physical chem are exceptional.


I know. I bought his phys chem and his stats thermo when I learned he's a chemist!

Id say his math book is his best book too - then again, I love math and don't really appreciate chemistry as much as I should.




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