Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-01-07
Books mentioned on Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
Grant Sanderson is a math educator and creator of 3Blue1Brown, a popular YouTube channel that uses programmatically-animated visualizations to explain concepts in linear algebra, calculus, and other fields of mathematics. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics edited by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader is an authoritative reference work designed to provide a comprehensive overview of modern mathematical thought and its history.
Recommended“if anyone wants to start to understand it if they have like a math background of some like they studied some in college or something like that like the princeton companion to math has a really good article on analytic number theory”
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A Mathematician's Lament
Discussed“in in a mathematicians limit Paul Lockhart writes the first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art the difference between math and the other arts such as music and painting is that our culture does not recognize it as such so I think I speak for millions of people myself included in saying thank you for revealing to”
