Book shelf

In this page I add book / resource titles that are useful or beautiful or both. Please let me know if you have some recommendations as well.

Pre College books

  • Calculus by Tarasov
  • Lines and Curves by Vasiliyev
  • Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert and Vossen
  • Mathematical Circles; Russian experience by Fomin
  • Complex Numbers from A to Z by Titu Andreescue
  • Mathematics can be fun by Yakov Perelman
  • Intuitive Topology by Prasolov

College + Grad School Books

  • A course in metric geometry by Burago, Burago and Ivanov
  • Office hours with a geometric group theorist by Clay and Margalit
  • Geometry of defining relations in groups by Olashanskii
  • Three dimensional geometry and topology by Thurston
  • Trees by Serre
  • Sur les groupes hyperboliques d’après Mikhael Gromov by Ghys and Harpe (find an unofficial English translation here)

Videos

  1. Summer School on geometric group theory at IHES in 2019
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx5f8IelFRgFNIrKJ-z7qYkpLH5BS_fhn

    Particularly the lecture series by Dani Wise
  2. The WE-Heraeus International Winter School on Gravity and Light
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu9aK1UVC_