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Books mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast

#126 – James Gosling

24 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #126:

  1. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by David Wells
  2. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
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#125 – Ryan Hall

21 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #125:

  1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  2. The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
  3. Dune by Frank Herbert
  4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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#124 – Stephen Wolfram

16 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #124:

  1. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
  2. A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics by Stephen Wolfram
  3. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
  4. Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
  5. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
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#123 – Manolis Kellis

12 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #123:

  1. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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#122 – David Fravor

08 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #122:

  1. Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by S. James Gates Jr., Cathie Pelletier
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#121 – Eugenia Kuyda

05 Sep 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #121:

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  2. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  3. The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
  4. Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
  5. The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian
  6. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  7. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
  8. On Becoming A Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers
  9. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  10. In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
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#120 – François Chollet

31 Aug 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #120:

  1. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
  2. Books by Jean Piaget
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#119 – David Eagleman

26 Aug 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #119:

  1. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
  2. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
  4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  5. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
  8. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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#118 – Grant Sanderson

24 Aug 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #118:

  1. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
  2. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
  3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
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#117 – Sheldon Solomon

21 Aug 2020

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #117:

  1. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why by Ellen Dissanayake
  2. Dreamthorp by Alexander Smith
  3. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  4. Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
  5. The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man by Ernest Becker
  6. The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
  7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  8. False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism by John Gray
  9. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  10. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life by Sherwood Anderson
  11. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Wilson
  12. History Of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
  13. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
  14. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  15. Consciousness regained: Chapters in the Development of Mind by Nicholas Humphrey
  16. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  17. Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
  18. The Dead by James Joyce
  19. The Plague by Albert Camus
  20. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
  21. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  22. The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
  23. Books by Richard D. Wolff
  24. Books by Adam Smith
  25. Books by Malcolm Gladwell
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