Books Recommended by Eric Weinstein
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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
1 recommender
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
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)
Michael Spivak
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this series on Twitter.
1 recommender
Science Since Babylon
Derek De Solla Price
Source: Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston.
1 recommender
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
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Prison Diary
Jayaprakash Narayan
Source: "I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy." - Eric Weinstein
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Rene Girard
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2 recommenders
The Theoretical Minimum
What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard Susskind
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3 recommenders
Not Even Wrong
The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law
Peter Woit
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Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Noam Chomsky
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1 recommender
A History of Economic Theory
Classic Contributions, 1720-1980
Jürg Niehans
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
Maxwell Nurnberg
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The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
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2 recommenders
Save The Cat!
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder
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The Whole Shebang
A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
Timothy Ferris
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Accounting for Tastes
Gary S. Becker
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Eat the Rich
A Treatise on Economics
P. J. O'Rourke
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
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36 Lectures in Biology
S.E. Luria
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1 recommender
The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tim Ferriss
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Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover
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2 recommenders
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
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3 recommenders
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
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Basic Algebra I
Nathan Jacobson
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1 recommender
The Loom of Language
An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
Frederick Bodmer
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Father to Son
Life Lessons on Raising a Boy
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
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An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory
K Moriyasu
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The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Stephon Alexander
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The Geometric Universe
Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose
S. A. Huggett
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
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3 recommenders
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
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2 recommenders
Peddling Prosperity
Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
Paul Krugman
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1 recommender
A Guide to LATEX
Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users
Helmut Kopka
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Pattern Classification
Richard O. Duda
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The Penguin Russian Course
A Complete Course for Beginners
J. L. I. Fennell
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A Literary Companion to Science
Walter Gratzer
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Age and Guile
Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
P. J. O'Rourke
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The Beat of a Different Drum
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Jagdish Mehra
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Introduction to Econometrics
James H Stock
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The Annotated Alice
Lewis Carroll
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Calculus On Manifolds
A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus
Michael Spivak
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QED and the Men Who Made It
Silvan S. Schweber
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Ringside
A History of Professional Wrestling in America
Scott Beekman
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Makam
Modal Practice In Turkish Art Music
Karl L. Signell PhD
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Out of My Later Years
The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
Albert Einstein
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More Heat than Light
Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics
Philip Mirowski
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2 recommenders
Quantum Mechanics
The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind
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1 recommender
Elements of the Theory of Computation
Harry Lewis
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Concepts of Particle Physics
Volume I
Kurt Gottfried
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Introductory Econometrics
A Modern Approach
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
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Give War a Chance
Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
P. J. O'Rourke
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The Diary of Anais Nin
Complete in 4 Volumes
Anais Nin
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Encyclopedia of Physics
Rita Lerner
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Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation
Richard E. Crandall
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Grand Unified Theories
Graham Ross
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The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
Stephen W. Hawking
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100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Act-By-Act Synopses
Henry W. Simon
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Introduction to Linear Algebra
Gilbert Strang
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Differential Topology
Victor Guillemin
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Teach Yourself Hindi
Complete Course
Rupert Snell
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Essential Relativity
Special, General, and Cosmological
Wolfgang Rindler
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Colloquial Turkish
The Complete Course for Beginners
Ad Backus
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1
Basics
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics
Explaining and Extending the Standard Model
Gordon Kane
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Topology and Analysis
The Atiyah-Singer Index Formula and Gauge-Theoretic Physics
B. Booss
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Spoken and Written Hindi
Bal Govind Misra
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Modern Geometry ― Methods and Applications
Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields
B.A. Dubrovin
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Introduction to Superstrings
Michio Kaku
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General Relativity for Mathematicians
R.K. Sachs
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology
Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology
Norriss S. Hetherington
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Quantum Field Theory and Topology
Albert S. Schwarz
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics
R. Shankar
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Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions
Chris Quigg
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
Raoul Bott
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Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Stephen A. Fulling
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The Ideas of Particle Physics
J. E. Dodd
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Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
From Isospin To Unified Theories
Howard Georgi
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