📚 3 Books mentioned in "Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers | Lex Fridman Podcast #209" of Lex Fridman Podcast

um there's a a really interesting book on this topic called gaming the metrics It's a book by a researcher called mario biagioli it goes a lot into like how these the impact factor and metrics affect science negatively

One of the guests mentions a book about how metrics like impact factor negatively affect science, explicitly stating the title and author.

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i also read a book by cedric villani uh these cedric velani is this mathematician the fields medalist and in his book he tries to explain how he got from like a phd student to the fields metal

One of the guests mentions reading a book by mathematician Cedric Villani about his journey from PhD student to Fields Medalist.

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but uh what they're effectively trying to do was have you ever watched moneyball like yeah so they're trying to do something similar to taking that in this case basketball taking a statistical approach to to to basketball

Lex Fridman asks if the guest has watched 'Moneyball' in the context of applying statistics to sports, referencing the book/movie's theme.

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