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Free Textbooks
Textbooks available online at no cost. Often distributed in the PDF format.
- Lessons In Electric Circuits
Thoroughly covers the basics of DC and AC electrical theory, and then more. Open source and copyleft.
- The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing
A excellent introduction to digital signal processing with emphasis on linear operations and Fourier transforms. Very practical; concepts can easily be implemented in software.
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography
A deep introduction to modern cryptography concepts such as block ciphers, hash functions, and public-key cryptography.
- Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Talks about the notion of security that is to be considered when designing systems, with examples of real life systems (and their failures).
- Numerical Recipes
Describes and explains many numerical algorithms. (Numerical algorithms work with approximate rather than exact numbers.) These descriptions are easily translated into software.
Last modified: 2007-08-17-Fri
Created: 2007-04-12-Thu