Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-08-09
Books mentioned on #209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mathematics is the Poetry of Science
Discussed“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”
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Galileo's for the Social and Cognitive Legitimation of Science
Discussed“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”
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Euclid's elements
Discussed“what i mean by that is that if you look at like euclid's elements it's as valid today as it was when it was created like 2 000 years ago”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Moneyball
“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”