Eric Weinstein's Book Recommendations
Eric Weinstein is an American mathematician, economist, and commentator. He is the managing director of Thiel Capital. Based on his wide-ranging book recommendations, he seems to have interests in mathematics, physics, economics, and history.
📚 Books Recommended by Eric Weinstein 87
All the Trouble in the World
"Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today."
book list View source ↗"I’m always asked for book recommendations but am reluctant to give them. “All the Trouble in the World” was an amazing book by @PJORourke. He‘s also a master stylist of distinctly American English. Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today."
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The Emperor of Scent
"A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized."
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Science Since Babylon
"Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston."
book list View source ↗"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."
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Heraclitean Fire
"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."
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Zero to One
"If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and it’s an important truth, Zero to One says here are all the ways you might want to make that work."
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
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The Theoretical Minimum
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)
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Not Even Wrong
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Necessary Illusions
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A History of Economic Theory
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
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The Strangest Man
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The Whole Shebang
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Accounting for Tastes
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Eat the Rich
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The True Believer
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36 Lectures in Biology
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The 4-Hour Workweek
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Elements of Information Theory
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Einstein's Dreams
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The Denial of Death
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Basic Algebra I
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The Loom of Language
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An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory
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Father to Son
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Symmetry
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The Jazz of Physics
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The Geometric Universe
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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Bloodlands
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Peddling Prosperity
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A Guide to LATEX
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Pattern Classification
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A Literary Companion to Science
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The Penguin Russian Course
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Age and Guile
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Introduction to Econometrics
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The Beat of a Different Drum
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The Annotated Alice
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Calculus On Manifolds
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Gravitation
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QED and the Men Who Made It
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Makam
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Ringside
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More Heat than Light
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Out of My Later Years
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Quantum Mechanics
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Elements of the Theory of Computation
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Concepts of Particle Physics
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Give War a Chance
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Introductory Econometrics
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Perfumes
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Encyclopedia of Physics
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The Diary of Anais Nin
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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
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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
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Essential Relativity
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Teach Yourself Hindi
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1
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Everyday Indonesian
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology
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General Relativity for Mathematicians
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Introduction to Superstrings
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Modern Geometry ― Methods and Applications
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Topology and Analysis
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
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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
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The Ideas of Particle Physics
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Prison Diary
"I suggest Prison Diary for this moment in our democracy."
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Spoken and Written Hindi
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"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."
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Turkish Grammar
"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."
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The Physics of Wall Street
"You can read all about this attempt to disintermediate legacy economics in the final chapter and epilogue of this best selling book from a few years ago by Jim Weatherall in the time before Satoshi:"
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The Phantom Tollbooth
"The fictional character that changed my life. RIP to Norton Juster. I can’t tell you what that book meant to me. It was, in fact, the main inspiration for the title of my podcast. Portal = Tollbooth Thank you for that one book. Perhaps my favorite of all time."
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