DeepMind researcher Greg Yang dumps his book collection in rough chronological order
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-07
Greg Yang, author of Tensor Programs and researcher at DeepMind, shared his personal book collection in rough chronological order. The first half leans heavily mathematical and theoretical: Halmos' Naive Set Theory, Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right, CLRS' Introduction to Algorithms, MacKay's Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, Griffiths' quantum mechanics text, Jaynes' Probability Theory, Munkres' Topology, plus logic and complex analysis texts — tracing a path from math foundations to information theory and physics.
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