Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2026-07-10

Books mentioned on Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

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Adam Brown is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

Adam Brown discussed The Principia by Isaac Newton and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Principia

   Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen · at 4:08

   The Principia by Isaac Newton, along with I.

   Discussed

   “The reigning theory of gravity at the time of Einstein stretches all the way back to Newton in the late 17th century, Newton's laws, in his Principia in 1687.”

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