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Every book Grant Sanderson recommended on podcasts
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3Blue1Brown is an educational YouTube channel created and run by Grant Sanderson. The channel focuses on teaching Higher Mathematics from a visual perspective, and on the process of discovery and inquiry-based learning in mathematics, which Sanderson calls inventing math. During podcast interviews, Sanderson has recommended and discussed several notable mathematical and educational texts. He recommended Justin Reich's Failure to Disrupt to explore the history and practical impacts of educational technology. For those interested in mastering deliberate practice and high-level performance, he recommended Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool's Peak. He also recommended Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader's The Princeton Companion to Mathematics for individuals with a college math background seeking to understand subjects like analytic number theory. Additionally, Sanderson discussed classic mathematical and scientific works, including Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland for visualizing dimensions, Euclid's Elements as an ancient foundational text demonstrating rigorous axiomatic proofs, and G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology to discuss pure mathematics during the Second World War.
Books recommended by Grant Sanderson
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Failure to Disrupt
Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich is an insightful book that explores the history, promises, and limitations of educational technology.
Recommended“There's a really good book that's actually kind of relevant to some of your early questions called Failure to Disrupt that goes over the history of educational technology.”
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Peak
Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool is a comprehensive guide examining the science of skill acquisition and the mechanisms behind achieving peak performance in various fields.
Recommended“a a good book to read if you want that sense is peak which essentially talks about peak performance in a lot of different ways”
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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 Apology
Discussed“I mean there was this this rather famous mathematician Hardy Who Um this was around the time of World War II he was writing this U book called a mathematician lament or sorry a mathematicians apology”
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Accessory to War
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang is an exhaustive historical investigation into the deep, often overlooked connections between scientific advancement in astrophysics and global military security.
Discussed“i don't know if you've read it i haven't read it i've been meaning to read it but neil degrasse tyson actually came out with a book that talks about like science and the context of the military”
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Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements by Euclid and Dana Densmore is a foundational mathematical treatise consisting of a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions, and mathematical proofs that laid the groundwork for geometry.
Discussed“one of the oldest texts in math is ukids elements and one of the things he did there is he starts by laying out some axioms”
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Flatland
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella that uses the adventures of a square in a two-dimensional world to explore the concepts of dimensions and perspective.
Discussed“I happen to have a copy right here on my desk. Oh. Oh, really? That's great. Yeah, I've got one over on the shelf over here. So this is this is a very classic book where um the author had you imagine a world that's just two-dimensional.”
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
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