Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-05-14
Books mentioned on #183 – Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing
Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician at CMU and coach of the USA International Math Olympiad team. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.
Lex Fridman discussed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Po-Shen Loh discussed The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a celebrated comedic science fiction series that follows the absurd interstellar adventures of the sole surviving human, Arthur Dent.
Discussed“but because it's placed in a book with humor around it it has the meme effect of actually creating reality I mean you could say that 42 has a strong contribution of helping us colonize mars because it created it gave the whatever existential crisis to many of us including elon musk when he was young you know reading a”
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R.
Discussed“i think i don't necessarily have an exact name of these old things but i was generally inspired by stories true or fictional of campaigns or you know like for example like the lord of the rings”
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a foundational high fantasy novel that follows a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins as he embarks on a perilous quest to destroy a corrupting ring of power and save Middle-earth from darkness.
Discussed“i was generally inspired by stories true or fictional of campaigns or you know like for example like the lord of the rings that's the content”
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