#6 – Guido van Rossum

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #6:

1. Books by Willem Frederik Hermans
2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

#5 – Vladimir Vapnik

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #5:

1. The Second World War by Winston Churchill

#4 – Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a computer scientist and one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal.

Watch or listen to episode #4

#3 – Steven Pinker

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #3:

1. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
2. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
3. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
4. A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem by James L. Payne
5. One Two Three… Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
6. Time-Life Science by Various authors
7. Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky
8. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
9. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
10. The Psychology of Communication by George Armitage Miller

#2 – Christof Koch

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #2:

1. Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
3. The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

#1 – Max Tegmark

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #1:

1. Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
2. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark