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Tu and Raoul Bott * [https://www.amazon.com/Morse-Theory-Annals-Mathematic-Studies/dp/0691080089 Morse Theory] / [https://www.amazon.com/Characteristic-Classes-AM-76-John-Milnor/dp/0691081220 Characteristic Classes] by Milnor * [https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Particles-Nature-Mathematicians/dp/0521277655 Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians] by Anthony Sudbery ==Biology== * [https://www.amazon.com/Double-Helix-Personal-Discovery-Structure/dp/074321630X Double Helix] by James D. Watson * [https://www.amazon.com/Heraclitean-Fire-Sketches-Before-Nature-dp-0874700299/dp/0874700299 Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chargaff Erwin Chargaff] * [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671225405 The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Freeland_Judson Horace Freeland Judson] * [https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary-Landmark-Science-dp-0198788606/ The Selfish Gene] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins] * [https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Phenotype-Oxford-Landmark-Science/dp/0198788916 The Extended Phenotype] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins] * [https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Mystery-ebook/dp/B000FBFMR0 The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Burr Chandler Burr] * [https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Switch-Third-Lambda-Revisited/dp/0879697164/ A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ptashne Mark Ptashne] * [https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lectures-Biology-Salvador-Edward/dp/0262120682 36 Lectures in Biology] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Luria S. 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Luria] * [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51306.Mutual_Aid Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin Pyotr Kropotkin] Extracted from [https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/ Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast] @43:03 : * [https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Encyclopedia-Human-Evolution-Reference/dp/0521467861/ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution] by Stephen Jones ==History of Science== * [[Science Since Babylon]] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek J. de Solla Price] ==Economics== * [https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives-ebook-dp-B00I5QWBX0/dp/B00I5QWBX0 More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)] by Philip Mirowski *[[The Physics of Wall Street]] by James Weatherall * [https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/71275/frontmatter/9781108471275_frontmatter.pdf Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy] by Bill Janeway ==From Eric's bookshelves== [https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1081207746655997954 Twitter photo of Eric's bookshelf]: {{#widget:Tweet|id=1081207746655997954}} ===1st (Top) Shelf:=== *[https://www.amazon.com/Turkish-Phrase-Book-Hugos-English/dp/0852851057 Turkish Phrase Book] *Russian Course *[https://www.amazon.com/Loom-Language-Approach-Mastery-Languages/dp/039330034X The Loom of Language] by Bodmer and Hogben *[https://www.amazon.com/Spoken-Written-Hindi-Govind-Misra/dp/0801401232 Spoken and Written Hindi] by Fairbanks and Misra *Teach Yourself Hindi *[https://www.amazon.com/Guide-LaTeX-4th-Helmut-Kopka/dp/0321173856 A Guide to Latex] by Kopka and Daly *Turkish Grammar *Everyday Indonesian *Colloquial Turkish *[https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Hindi-Complete-Language/dp/034086687X Teach Yourself Hindi] by Rupert Snell *Hindi & Urdu *Hindustani for the Tourist - ? *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Algebra-Second-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486471896 Basic Algebra I] by Nathan Jacobson *[https://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Particle-Physics-Introduction-Scientists/dp/0521386772 The Ideas of Particle Physics] by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd *[https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-Pt-1-Richard-Duda/dp/0471056693 Pattern Classification] by Duda, Hart & Stork *[https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theories-Theoretical-Mathematical-Physics-dp-3642821790/dp/3642821790/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1582629223 Introduction to Gauge Field Theories] by Masud Chaichian (Author), Nikolai F. Nelipa (Contributor) *[https://www.amazon.com/Supermanifolds-2nd-Bryce-DeWitt/dp/0521413206 Supermanifolds: Second Edition] by Bryce DeWitt *[https://www.amazon.com/General-Relativity-Relativistic-Astrophysics-Monographs/dp/0387130101 General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics] by Norbert Straumann *Quantum Mechanics and Integrals by Feynman and Hibbs *[https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Topology-AMS-Chelsea-Publishing/dp/0821851934 Differential Topology] by Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack *[https://www.amazon.com/Morse-Theory-Annals-Mathematics-Studies-ebook/dp/B01N0DA4OD Morse Theory] by John Milnor *[https://www.amazon.com/-/de/Characteristic-Classes-AM-76-John-Milnor-dp-0691081220/dp/0691081220/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Characteristic Classes] by John Willard Milnor & James D. Stasheff *[https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Theory-Computation-Harry-Lewis/dp/0132624788 Elements of the Theory of Computation] by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou *[https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Information-Theory-Telecommunications-Processing/dp/0471241954 Elements of Information Theory] by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas *[https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/1020/history-economic-theory A History of Economic Theory] by Jürg Niehans *[https://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Econometrics-Modern-Approach-MindTap/dp/1337558869 Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach] by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge *[https://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Prosperity-Diminished-Expectations-Paperback/dp/0393312925 Peddling Prosperity] by Paul Krugman *[https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Unregulated-Economist-Modernity-Paperback/dp/0226774406 Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist] by George J. Stigler *[https://www.amazon.com/Accounting-Tastes-Gary-S-Becker/dp/0674543572 Accounting for Tastes] by Gary S. Becker *[https://www.amazon.com/More-Heat-than-Light-Perspectives/dp/0521426898 More Heat than Light] by Philip Mirowski *[https://www.amazon.com/General-Theory-Employment-Interest-Money/dp/0156347113 The General Theory] by John Maynard Keynes *? ===2nd Shelf:=== *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Particle-Physics-Los-Alamos-Primer/dp/0521347807 Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer] by Necia Cooper *[https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Gilbert-Strang/dp/0980232716 Introduction to Linear Algebra] by Gilbert Strang *[https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Elementary-Particle-Physics-Explaining/dp/1107165083 Modern Elementary Particle Physics] by Gordon Kane *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Superstrings-Graduate-Contemporary-Physics/dp/0387967001 Introduction to Superstrings] *[https://www.emis.de/monographs/gilkey/ INVARIANCE THEORY, THE HEAT EQUATION, AND THE ATIYAH-SINGER INDEX THEOREM] by Peter B. Gilkey *A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Introduction-Differential-Geometry-Vol/dp/0914098721 A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III] by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Introduction-Differential-Geometry-Vol/dp/0914098748 A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V] by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-Shankar/dp/0306447908 Principles of Quantum Mechanics] by R. Shankar *[https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Space-Time-Cambridge-Monographs-Mathematical/dp/0521099064 The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time] by Hawkins, Ellis, et al. *[https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Introduction-Differential-Geometry-Vol/dp/0914098705 A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I] by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Introduction-Differential-Geometry-II/dp/0914098012 A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II] by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Primer-Gauge-Theory-ebook/dp/B004QZBBYO An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory] by K. Moriyasu *[https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Manifolds-Approach-Classical-Theorems/dp/0805390219 Calculus on Manifolds] by Michael Spivak *[https://www.amazon.com/Shelter-Island-II-1985-06-27/dp/B01JXOTO0K Shelter Island II] *[https://www.amazon.com/Topology-Analysis-Atiyah-Singer-Gauge-Theoretic-Universitext/dp/0387961127 Topology and Analysis] by B. Booss & D. D. Bleecker *[https://www.amazon.com/Representations-Compact-Groups-Graduate-Mathematics/dp/3540136789 Representations of Compact Lie Groups] *[https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Algebras-Particle-Physics-Frontiers/dp/0738202339 Lie Algebras in Particle Physics] by Howard Georgi *[https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Unified-Theories-Frontiers-Physics/dp/0805369678 Grand Unified Theories] by Graham Ross *[https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Topology-Grundlehren-mathematischen-Wissenschaften/dp/3540547533 Quantum Field Theory and Topology] by Albert S. Schwartz, E. Yankowsky, S. Levy *[https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Relativity-Cosmological-Theoretical-Mathematical/dp/354007970X Essential Relativity] by W. Rindler *[https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Geometry-Methods-Applications-Transformation/dp/1461287561 Modern Geometry I] by B. A. Dubrovin & S. P. Novikov *[https://www.amazon.com/Differential-Algebraic-Topology-Graduate-Mathematics/dp/0387906134 Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology] by Raoul Bott & Loring W. Tu *[https://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Manifolds-Physics-Part-Basics/dp/0444860177 Analysis, Manifolds and Physics] by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat & Cecile DeWitt-Morette *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Atiyah-Singer-Index-Theorem-Introduction-Mathematics/dp/3540086609 Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem] by Patrick Shanahan *[https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Particle-Physics-Kurt-Gottfried/dp/0195033922 Concepts of Particle Physics] by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf *[https://www.amazon.com/General-Relativity-Mathematicians-Graduate-Mathematics/dp/1461299055 General Relativity for Mathematicians] by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu ===3rd Shelf:=== *[https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Lectures-Biology-Salvador-Edward/dp/0262120682 36 Lectures in Biology] by S. E. Luria *[https://www.amazon.com/Not-Even-Wrong-Failure-Physical/dp/0465092764 Not Even Wrong] by Peter Woit *[https://www.amazon.com/Projecting-science-engineering-personnel-requirements/dp/0160400090 Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers?] by United States Congress *[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QF3RXPG Perfumes] by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez *[https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Different-Drum-Science-Richard/dp/0198539487 The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman] by Jagdish Mehra *[https://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Universe-Science-Geometry-Penrose/dp/0198500599 The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose] by S. A. Huggett (Editor), L. J. Mason (Editor), K. P. Tod (Editor), S. T. Tsou (Editor), N. M. J. Woodhouse (Editor) *[https://www.amazon.com/QED-Men-Made-Silvan-Schweber/dp/0691036853 QED and the Men Who Made It] by Silvan S. Schweber *[https://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Charles-W-Misner/dp/0691177791 Gravitation] by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, & John Archibald Wheeler *[https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Cosmology-Routledge-Revivals-Hetherington/dp/113877815X Encyclopedia of Cosmology] by Norriss S. Hetherington *[https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Physics-Rita-G-Lerner/dp/0471187194 Encyclopedia of Physics] by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg *[https://www.amazon.com/Aspects-Quantum-Spacetime-Mathematical-Society/dp/052134400X Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time] by Stephen A. Fulling *[https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Scientific-Computation-Richard-Crandall/dp/0387944737 Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation] by Richard E. Crandall *[https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Shebang-State-Universe-Report/dp/0684838613 The Whole Shebang] by Timothy Ferris *[https://www.amazon.com/Strangest-Man-Hidden-Dirac-Mystic/dp/0465022103 The Strangest Man] by Graham Farmelo *[https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Physics-Between-Structure-Universe/dp/0465093574 The Jazz of Physics] by Stephon Alexander *[https://www.amazon.com/Heraclitean-Fire-Sketches-Before-Nature/dp/0874700299 Heraclitean Fire] by Erwin Chargaff *[https://www.amazon.com/Literary-Companion-Science-Walter-Gratzer/dp/0582033721https://www.amazon.com/Literary-Companion-Science-Walter-Gratzer/dp/0582033721 A Literary Companion to Science] edited by Walter Gratzer *[https://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915 The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements] by Eric Hoffer *[https://www.amazon.com/Denial-Death-Ernest-Becker/dp/0684832402 The Denial of Death] *[https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Physics-Between-Structure-Universe/dp/0465093574 The Jazz of Physics] by Stephon Alexander (That's right, he has two copies of this book) *[https://www.amazon.com/Ringside-History-Professional-Wrestling-America/dp/027598401X Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America] by Scott Beekman *[https://www.amazon.com/Out-Later-Years-Scientist-Philosopher-ebook/dp/B004Q9U0L0 Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words] by Albert Einstein ===4th (Bottom) Shelf:=== *[https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Dreams-Alan-Lightman/dp/140007780X Einstein's Dreams] by Alan Lightman *[https://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Dictionary-Music-Revised-Enlarged/dp/0674375017 Harvard Dictionary of Music] by Willi Apel *[https://www.amazon.com/Makam-Modal-Practice-Turkish-Music/dp/0976045516 Makam] by Karl L. Signell *[https://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/dp/1932907009 Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need] by Blake Snyder *[https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Minimum-Start-Doing-Physics/dp/0465075681 The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics] by Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky *[https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Theoretical-Leonard-Susskind/dp/0465062903 Quantum Mechanics] by Leonard Susskind *[https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Anais-Nin-Vol-1955-1966/dp/0156260328 The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Six] *[https://www.amazon.com/Symmetry-Princeton-Science-Library-Hermann/dp/0691173257 Symmetry] by Hermann Weyl *[https://www.amazon.com/Great-Operas-Their-Stories-Act/dp/0385054483 100 Great Operas] by Henry W. Simon *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Gauge-Theories-Strong-Electromagnetic-Interactions/dp/0691135487 Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions] by Chris Quigg *[https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke/dp/0871137607 Eat the Rich] by P. J. O'Rourke *[https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Ana%C3%AFs-1939-1944-Anais-Book-ebook/dp/B003ZSISUS The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three] *? *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Alice-Adventures-Wonderland-Through/dp/0517029626 The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass] *[https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307465357/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1586259135&sr=8-2 The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich] by Timothy Ferris *[https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin] by Timothy Snyder *? *[https://www.amazon.com/Always-Egregious-Nurnberg-Maxwell-Hardcover/dp/B00YDK7DHQ I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious"] by Maxwell Nurnberg *[https://www.amazon.com/Give-War-Chance-Eyewitness-Alcohol-Free/dp/0871135205 Give War a Chance] by P. J. 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