Geek wrotecurrently reading F# for Scientists. "If you’re a computationally-oriented researcher, scientist, or developer who needs to learn the basics of functional programming, .NET and scientific computing, F# for Scientists will bring you up to speed with basic syntax and programming language concepts .."
for newcomers i'd recommend "Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science"; at least it's fun
Do you by any chance know where i can get my hands on this?
P.S.: If you have it already we can swap books for a week, i can lend you my Real-World Functional Programming (Practical examples using F# and C#) by John Skeet