Books Recommended by Eric Weinstein
Heraclitean Fire
Sketches from a Life Before Nature
Erwin Chargaff
Source: "When I heard that there was somebody who bet against Watson and Crick, I thought, 'well, this is just gonna be the laugh of the century.' But it turned out, just to short those guys required another genius." - Eric Weinstein
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
Source: "If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and it’s an important truth, [this book] says here are all the ways you might want to make that work." - Eric Weinstein
All the Trouble in the World
The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
P. J. O'Rourke
Source: "Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today." - Eric Weinstein
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)
Michael Spivak
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this series on Twitter.
Science Since Babylon
Derek De Solla Price
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston.
The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Chandler Burr
Source: "A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized." - Eric Weinstein
Prison Diary
Jayaprakash Narayan
Source: "I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy." - Eric Weinstein
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Rene Girard
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Theoretical Minimum
What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard Susskind
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Not Even Wrong
The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law
Peter Woit
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Noam Chomsky
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
A History of Economic Theory
Classic Contributions, 1720-1980
Jürg Niehans
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
Maxwell Nurnberg
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Save The Cat!
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The Whole Shebang
A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
Timothy Ferris
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Accounting for Tastes
Gary S. Becker
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
Eat the Rich
A Treatise on Economics
P. J. O'Rourke
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
Source: Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.
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