📚 2 Books mentioned in "49. Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears | People I (Mostly) Admire" of People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: 49. Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears | People I (Mostly) Admire
Published on April 4, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Superfreakonomics
Buy Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner on Amazon
Let's take *Super Freakonomics*, the second book that Steven Dubner and I wrote. There was every reason for it to be a huge success. We had just written *Freakonomics*, we knew how to write a book, but honestly, it didn't sell nearly as many copies as *Freakonomics* did.
In this segment, the podcast host, Steve Levitt, discusses his book, *Super Freakonomics*, which he co-authored with Steven Dubner. He reflects on its performance compared to their earlier work, *Freakonomics*, and uses it as an example to explain the phenomenon known as the 'sophomore slump'.
The Emperor's New Mind
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His book—I don't know if it's the same book we both read, *The Emperor's New Mind*? Yes, exactly, that's the book that blew my mind as a teenager. By that point, I already liked math, but he talked about these things called Turing machines, which are theoretical computers.
In this segment, Steve Levitt inquires whether Sarah Hart had also read *The Emperor's New Mind* by Roger Penrose. She affirms it was the book that profoundly impacted her during her teenage years, prompting a discussion on Turing machines.