Eric Weinstein Recommended Books
Eric Weinstein has recommended 89 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Eric Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's personal investment firm, since 2015.
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
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The Theoretical Minimum
What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
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Daemon
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)
Eric Weinstein recommended this series on Twitter. (Source)
Not Even Wrong
The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law
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Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
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A History of Economic Theory
Classic Contributions, 1720-1980
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
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Science Since Babylon
Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston. (Source)
Save The Cat!
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Neville Medhora, Tim Ferriss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Donald Miller
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The Whole Shebang
A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
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Accounting for Tastes
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Eat the Rich
A Treatise on Economics
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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George Raveling, Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Mark Manson, Marc Andreessen, Patrick Bet-David
Heraclitean Fire
Sketches from a Life Before Nature
"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 (Source)
All the Trouble in the World
The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
"Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
36 Lectures in Biology
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Tristan Harris, Charles Poliquin, Walter Isaacson, Daniel Pink, Blake Mycoskie, David Heinemeier Hansson, Marc Andreessen, Jason Silva, Mike Shinoda, Mark Bell, Maurice Ashley, Tim Draper, Derek Sivers, Rolf Potts, A.J. Jacobs, Caterina Fake, Ev Williams, Gary Keller, Laura R Walker, Marc Goodman, Mike Maples, Jr., Lewis Howes, Jodie Cook, Brian Dean, Michael Hyatt
Elements of Information Theory
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Einstein's Dreams
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The Denial of Death
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Jordan Peterson, Jason Silva, Darren Aronofsky, Shay Carl, Tai Lopez, Mark Manson, Marc Maron
Basic Algebra I
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
The Loom of Language
An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory
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Father to Son
Life Lessons on Raising a Boy
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Symmetry
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The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
The Geometric Universe
Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
"A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Peddling Prosperity
Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
A Guide to LATEX
Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Pattern Classification
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A Literary Companion to Science
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The Penguin Russian Course
A Complete Course for Beginners
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Age and Guile
Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
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Introduction to Econometrics
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The Beat of a Different Drum
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
The Annotated Alice
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Calculus On Manifolds
A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus
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Gravitation
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QED and the Men Who Made It
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Makam
Modal Practice In Turkish Art Music
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Ringside
A History of Professional Wrestling in America
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More Heat than Light
Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics
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Out of My Later Years
The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
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Quantum Mechanics
The Theoretical Minimum
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Elements of the Theory of Computation
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Concepts of Particle Physics
Volume I
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Give War a Chance
Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
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Introductory Econometrics
A Modern Approach
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Perfumes
The Guide
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Encyclopedia of Physics
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The Diary of Anais Nin
Complete in 4 Volumes
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Grand Unified Theories
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Shelter Island II
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Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation
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The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
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100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Act-By-Act Synopses
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Supermanifolds
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Introduction to Linear Algebra
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Differential Topology
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Colloquial Turkish
The Complete Course for Beginners
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Essential Relativity
Special, General, and Cosmological
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Teach Yourself Hindi
Complete Course
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1
Basics
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Everyday Indonesian
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics
Explaining and Extending the Standard Model
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology
Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology
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General Relativity for Mathematicians
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Introduction to Superstrings
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Modern Geometry ― Methods and Applications
Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Spoken and Written Hindi
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Topology and Analysis
The Atiyah-Singer Index Formula and Gauge-Theoretic Physics
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)
Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics
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Quantum Field Theory and Topology
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Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
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Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
From Isospin To Unified Theories
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The Ideas of Particle Physics
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Prison Diary
"I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
"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 (Source)
Also recommended by:
Andrew Ng, Ben Horowitz, Bryan Johnson, Chris Dixon, Dustin Moskovitz, Elon Musk, Keith Rabois, Kishore Biyani, Lee Stranahan, Luis von Ahn, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Mullenweg, Max Levchin, Nassim Taleb, Sam Altman, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Tom Bilyeu, Ryan Petersen, Brian Dean, Rupert Murdoch
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