Eric’s Most Important Set of Books

Eric's Most Important Books
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Topic	Eric's Most Important Books
Leader	Aardvark (Aardvark#5610) Brooke (pyrope#2222)
Start Date	27 January 2020
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Mathematics

• The Shape of Space by Jeffrey R. Weeks
• Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
• Einstein Manifolds by Besse
• Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
• Road to Reality by Penrose
• Gravitation, Gauge Theories And Differential Geometry Eguchi, Gilkey, and Hansen 1980
• Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak
• Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators by Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, and Nicole Berline
• Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott
• Morse Theory / Characteristic Classes by Milnor
• Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians by Anthony Sudbery

Biology

• Double Helix by James D. Watson
• Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature by Erwin Chargaff
• The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
• The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr
• A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited by Mark Ptashne
• 36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin

Extracted from Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast @43:03 :

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Stephen Jones

History of Science

• Science Since Babylon by Derek J. de Solla Price

Economics

• 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
• Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by Bill Janeway

Other

• "Prison Diary" by Jayaprakash Narayan

From Eric's bookshelves

Twitter photo of Eric's bookshelf:

1st (Top) Shelf:

• Turkish Phrase Book
• Russian Course
• The Loom of Language by Bodmer and Hogben
• Spoken and Written Hindi by Fairbanks and Misra
• Teach Yourself Hindi
• A Guide to Latex by Kopka and Daly
• Turkish Grammar
• Everyday Indonesian
• Colloquial Turkish
• Teach Yourself Hindi by Rupert Snell
• Hindi & Urdu
• Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
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• Basic Algebra I by Nathan Jacobson
• The Ideas of Particle Physics by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
• Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
• Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Masud Chaichian (Author), Nikolai F. Nelipa (Contributor)
• Supermanifolds: Second Edition by Bryce DeWitt
• General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics by Norbert Straumann
• Quantum Mechanics and Integrals by Feynman and Hibbs
• Differential Topology by Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack
• Morse Theory by John Milnor
• Characteristic Classes by John Willard Milnor & James D. Stasheff
• Elements of the Theory of Computation by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
• Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas
• A History of Economic Theory by Jürg Niehans
• Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
• Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
• Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
• Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
• More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
• The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
• ?

2nd Shelf:

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• Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer by Necia Cooper
• Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
• Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
• ?
• Introduction to Superstrings
• 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
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V by Michael Spivak
• Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Hawkins, Ellis, et al.
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I by Michael Spivak
• A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II by Michael Spivak
• An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory by K. Moriyasu
• Calculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak
• Shelter Island II
• Topology and Analysis by B. Booss & D. D. Bleecker
• Representations of Compact Lie Groups
• Lie Algebras in Particle Physics by Howard Georgi
• Grand Unified Theories by Graham Ross
• Quantum Field Theory and Topology by Albert S. Schwartz, E. Yankowsky, S. Levy
• Essential Relativity by W. Rindler
• Modern Geometry I by B. A. Dubrovin & S. P. Novikov
• Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Raoul Bott & Loring W. Tu
• Analysis, Manifolds and Physics by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat & Cecile DeWitt-Morette
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• Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem by Patrick Shanahan
• Concepts of Particle Physics by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf
• General Relativity for Mathematicians by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu

3rd Shelf:

• 36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
• Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
• Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers? by United States Congress
• Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
• The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra
• 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)
• QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber
• Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, & John Archibald Wheeler
• Encyclopedia of Cosmology by Norriss S. Hetherington
• Encyclopedia of Physics by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg
• Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time by Stephen A. Fulling
• Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation by Richard E. Crandall
• The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
• The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
• The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
• Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
• A Literary Companion to Science edited by Walter Gratzer
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
• The Denial of Death
• The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
• Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America by Scott Beekman
• Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein

4th (Bottom) Shelf:

• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
• Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel
• Makam by Karl L. Signell
• Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
• The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
• Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
• The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Six
• Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
• 100 Great Operas by Henry W. Simon
• ?
• Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions by Chris Quigg
• Eat the Rich by P. J. O'Rourke
• The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three
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• The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
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• I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious" by Maxwell Nurnberg
• Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke
• Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P. J. O'Rourke
• Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann, & Michael Metteer
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• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• Father to Son
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See Also

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

2:40 PM · Nov 13, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Tell us why in the replies if you can? Thx!

2:44 PM · Nov 13, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@mister_duva Because it is a well written book that introduced me to a people, culture and civilization that enriched my life forever through their excruciatingly beautiful and logical language.

2:48 PM · Nov 13, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@GordoRabinowitz I loved it so much my mom destroyed it deliberately so she would never have to read it again.

“Do you like my hat?”
“I do not.”

The raw honesty of canine interlocutors was spell binding.

And that fasciliated the dog party in the tree which, w/o honesty, would be impossible.;-)

3:01 PM · Nov 13, 2022

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