Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2021-W36

“don is a legendary computer scientist touring award winner father of algorithm analysis author of the art of computer programming creator of tech that led to late tech and one of the kindest and most fascinating human beings i've ever got a chance to talk to”

“yo and jack benny i mean steve allen wrote this book about humor and it was the most boring book but he was one of my idols but but uh yeah it's called the funny men or something like that”

“in fact in volume 2 i've got a cryptogram a message in cypher and in order to decipher it you're going to have to have to break an rsa key which is larger than people know how to break”

“and and i i changed the name to surreal numbers that so this book is now published as surreal number and um and you know we figured out we'd always wonder what what what would he like to have an affair in a hotel room”

“there's a book by dr seuss called on beyond zebra and he gave a name to that”

“wait are you talking about cat in the hat”

“and the new insight i've gotten him actually in that way was i i was reading uh what what book was i reading now recently it was it was by ken follett and it was called the man from saint petersburg”

“um i wrote a book about people suggesting people take a break from their social media to see what happens and maybe even it was actually the title of the book was just the arguments to delete your account”

“so there's this thing called data dignity that i've been studying for a long time i wrote a book about an earlier version of it called who owns the future”

“i thought that was a curious kind of thought that reminds me of that uh old isaac asimov story where the cl you know there's this planet where they finally get to see what's in the sky once in a while”