📚 3 Books mentioned in "Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas & Institutions | Lex Fridman Podcast #88" of Lex Fridman Podcast

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Episode: Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas & Institutions | Lex Fridman Podcast #88

Published on April 13, 2020

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!


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Fermat's last theorem

by Simon Singh, John Lynch, scénariste

So if you look at the story of Andrew Wiles for example with from last Last Theorem he as far as I understand he pretty much isolated himself from the world of academics in terms of the big with the bulk of the work he did and it from my perspective is dramatic and fun to read about

Lex mentions the story of Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem, implying a book about the topic.

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The Emperor's New Mind

by Roger Penrose

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Now that wall needs an owner's manual which Roger Penrose has written called the road to reality

Eric mentions this book by Roger Penrose as an 'owner's manual' for understanding fundamental physics equations.

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus

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or reading the plague by Camus like almost kind of telling narratives and stories

Lex mentions reading this book to make sense of the current crisis.

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