Books
- Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1962; second edition 1973. Dover paperback reprint: Hamming, Richard W; Hamming, Richard Wesley (1986). Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers. ISBN 0-486-65241-6. http://books.google.com/?id=Y3YSCmWBVwoC&printsec=frontcover..
- Calculus and the Computer Revolution, Houghton-Mifflin, 1968.
- Introduction To Applied Numerical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1971.
- Computers and Society, McGraw-Hill, 1972.
- Digital Filters, Prentice Hall, 1977; second edition 1983; third edition 1989; Paperback reprint: Hamming, Richard Wesley (1998). Digital Filters (3rd ed.). Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-65088-X. http://books.google.com/?id=GQv9UOdeW9cC&printsec=frontcover.
- Coding and Information Theory, Prentice Hall 1980; second edition 1986.
- Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics, Prentice Hall, 1985. Paperback reprint: Hamming, Richard Wesley (2004). Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-43945-3. http://books.google.com/?id=jMc8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover.
- Unconventional introductory textbook which attempts to both teach calculus and give some idea of what it is good for at the same time. Might be of special interest to someone teaching an introductory calculus course using a conventional textbook, in order to pick up some new pedagogical viewpoints.
- The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers, Addison-Wesley, 1991; Paperback reprint: Hamming, Richard Wesley (1994). The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers. Westview Press. ISBN 0-201-40686-1. http://books.google.com/?id=jX_F-77TA3gC&printsec=frontcover.
- Hamming, Richard W; Hamming, Richard Wesley (1997). The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn. Gordon and Breach. ISBN 90-5699-501-4. http://books.google.com/?id=y0yOQgAACAAJ.
- Entertaining and instructive. Hamming tries to extract general lessons—both personal and technical – to aid one in having a successful technical career by telling stories from his own experiences.
- (Some of this material relating to the self-management of one's technical career can be found online in You and Your Research, (Hamming 1986).)
- One of Hamming's lessons is never trust without question someone who claims to be giving you highly accurate data to analyze – not because they're deliberately lying to you but because the data is never as accurate as people think.
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