The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard Hamming

Science / Engineering

Richard Hamming's late-career lectures at the Naval Postgraduate School, distilled into a manual on how to do important work. Hamming argues that style of thought—not raw IQ—separates researchers who produce Nobel-level breakthroughs from those who produce competent increments. Collison has cited it as one of the few books that changed how he thinks about ambition and research.