Every book Joel David Hamkins recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Joel David Hamkins

1. 

   Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (On the Shoulders of Giants)

   Galileo Galilei · Discussed · 1 episode

   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.”

   Lex Fridman Podcast Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multivers… 2025-12-31 Listen at 4:35

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library
2. 

   Elements

   Euclid · Discussed · 1 episode

   Elements by Euclid is an ancient geometric textbook written over two thousand years ago that laid the foundational principles for the field of geometry and remained actively in use as an educational resource up until a couple of centuries ago.

   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.”

   Lex Fridman Podcast Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multivers… 2025-12-31 Listen at 8:22

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

Books Joel David Hamkins wrote

• Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics

Appearances