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Every book Joel David Hamkins recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Joel David Hamkins has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of December 31, 2025.
- Joel David Hamkins has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of December 31, 2025.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of December 31, 2025.
- The 2 books Joel David Hamkins has mentioned in the most episodes, as of December 31, 2025: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (On the Shoulders of Giants) and Elements.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Joel David Hamkins aired on December 31, 2025.
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Books Joel David Hamkins recommended or discussed
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Discussed“Galileo is an extremely prominent exception to this, though he argued against this sort of potentialist orthodoxy in The Dialogue of Two New Sciences.”
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Elements
Discussed“The tension between the Cantor-Hume principle and what could be called Euclid's principle, which is that the whole is always greater than the part, is a principle that Euclid appealed to in the Elements many times when he's calculating area and so on.”
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Books Joel David Hamkins wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488 | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2025-12-31 | 2 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged Proof and the Art of Mathematics
“And in my book, I give a couple of different proofs of this. I think I give an induction proof and then there's another proof. I think there's three different proofs in there.”