Shamefully I stole the following list from the posts in stackexchange and mathoverflow, but here I list a refined list from the papers I like or find interesting(adding a few of my own recommendations) and I’ll extend the list if I found new ones:
Computer Science
“A mathematical theory of communication” by Claude Shannon
Alan Turing, “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem”
Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust”
Paths, Trees and Flowers by J. Edmonds.
Hartmanis and Stearns, “On the computational complexity of algorithms”
Hundreds of Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing by Fich and Ruppert
Les Valiant’s Theory of the Learnable
Call-by-value is dual to call-by-name by Philip Wadler
Floating point numbers for Computer Scientists
Lambda papers by Steele and Sussman
E. Mark Gold, Language Identification in the Limit, Information and Control 10, 447–474, 1967. doi: 10.1016/S0019-9958(67)91165-5
Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
N. Chomsky. Three models for the description of language. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 3. 1956. doi: 10.1109/TIT.1956.1056813
Aleph one , Smashing the stack for fun or profit
John McCarthy, A BASIS FOR A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMPUTATION
R Roemer et al, Return oriented programming
Machine Learning: A Historical and Methodological Analysis. By Jaime G. Carbonell et al
Y. Bengio et al Scaling learning algorithms towards AI
Dennis Ritchie, The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System*
Ray Solomonoff, A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A GENERAL THEORY
OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE
Mathematics
A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart.
William Thurston’s On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
“What is good mathematics?” by Terry Tao
Gowers’ The Two Cultures of Mathematics.
A beginner’s guide to forcing by Tim Chow.
Gromer’s Spaces and Questions
Missed Opportunities, Freeman Dyson
Birds and Frogs by Freeman Dyson
Doyle and Conway, Division by Three, math/0605779v1
Paul Halmos How to Write Mathematics
Yu. I. Manin, Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics
Yu. I. Manin, Mathematical knowledge: internal, social and cultural aspects
Yu. I. Manin, The notion of dimension in geometry and algebra
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