Eric Weinstein's Book Recommendations
Eric Weinstein is an accomplished American mathematician, economist, and writer, known for his influential work in the fields of geometric unity and economic theory. As the Managing Director of Thiel Capital, he has significantly impacted the financial and technological sectors. Weinstein is also renowned for his thought-provoking discussions on the podcast "The Portal," where he explores complex scientific and social issues. He has written extensively on a variety of topics, contributing to both academic and popular literature. His unique perspectives and interdisciplinary approach have earned him recognition as a leading intellectual voice of his generation.
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Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
The 4-hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
The Coddling of the American Mind
Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Don't Burn This Book
Dave Rubin
More Heat Than Light
Philip Mirowski
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus
The Loom of Language
Frederick Bodmer
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
René Girard, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Guy Lefort
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
Save the Cat!
Blake Snyder
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry
Michael Spivak
Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas
The Physics of Wall Street
James Owen Weatherall
Introduction to Superstrings
Michio Kaku
The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
Howard Georgi
Everyday Indonesian
Thomas Oey
Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
Raoul Bott, Loring W. Tu
100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Henry W. Simon
Modern Elementary Particle Physics
Gordon Kane
Out of My Later Years
Albert Einstein
Bell Curve
Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
Principles of Quantum Mechanics
R. Shankar
Shelter Island II
Roman W. Jackiw
The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
Stephen Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis
Peddling Prosperity
Paul R. Krugman
The Jazz of Physics
Stephon Alexander
Father to Son, Revised Edition
Harry H. Harrison, Jr.
Modern Geometry — Methods and Applications
B.A. Dubrovin, A.T. Fomenko, S.P. Novikov
I Always Look Up the Word "egregious"
Maxwell W. Nurnberg
General Relativity for Mathematicians
R.K. Sachs, H.-H. Wu
QED and the Men who Made it
Silvan S. Schweber
Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette
The Strangest Man
Graham Farmelo
Gravitation
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
Calculus on Manifolds
Michael Spivak
Supermanifolds
Bryce Seligman DeWitt
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Gilbert Strang
Accounting for Tastes
Gary S. Becker
Quantum Field Theory and Topology
Albert S. Schwarz
Differential Topology
Victor Guillemin, Alan Pollack
The Annotated Alice
Lewis Carroll
Makam
Karl L. Signell
This Will Change Everything
John Brockman
Introduction to Econometrics
James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson
The Ideas of Particle Physics
J. E. Dodd
Symmetry
Hermann Weyl
A History of Economic Theory
Jürg Niehans
How Music Works
David Byrne
The Emperor of Scent
Chandler Burr
The Social Leap
William von Hippel
An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory
K. Moriyasu, Keihachiro Moriyasu
Perfumes
Luca Turin
The End of Gender
Debra Soh
Little Red Riding Hood
Brothers Grimm
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