Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-12-03
Lex Fridman & Peter Woit: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #246
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong.
Peter Woit recommended A Grandparent's Gift of Love by Edward Fays, Amour et maths by Edward Frenkel, and The Second Creation by Robert P. Crease and others, and discussed Love and Math by Edward Frenkel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Grandparent's Gift of Love
Recommended“and there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great”
Where to get it
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Amour et maths
Recommended“and there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great”
Where to get it
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Love and Math
Discussed“and there's a book for instance by um edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great”
Where to get it
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The Second Creation
Recommended“there's also a very very good kind of history of of the kind of what happened during this 20th century in physics and you know up to the time of the standard model in 1973 it's called the um the second creation by um pop crease and in man that's one of the best ones i know that's”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Not Even Wrong
“i would argue and like part of the point of the book and its title was that um you know that this this ultimately was it was a failure that you ended up that this idea just didn't”
Plugged Not Even Wrong
“and yes the the book title is not even wrong your blog your excellent blog title is not even wrong”