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Ask HN: Which is the best textbook you have ever read?
2 points by learner_yearner •                         
The book which gave you knowledge that propelled your life in a meaningful way.
rurban •                         
SICP of course, as for most others also
k310 •                         
I was going to say One, Two, Three, Infinity by George Gamow, but that's not a textbook, so what stands out in my mind are the Feynmann Lectures.

When I started out in computing, think 8080 and 6502, there were basically no books. On the optics end, which eventually gave way to computing, probably Modern Optical Engineering, by Warren Smith.