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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Edward Frenkel
“he also is the author of love and math the heart of hidden reality this is the Lex Friedman podcast”— Edward Frenkel
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The Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark
“what do you think of uh Max tag Mark or wrote the book mathematical universe”— Lex Fridman
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1984
George Orwell
“to the political complexity of uh two plus two equals five and George Orwell's 1984. I was in the Soviet Union in 1984”— Edward Frenkel
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (inferred)
“if this doesn't remind you of the great works of Russian literature then you haven't read them like War and Peace”— Edward Frenkel
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A Void (La Disparition)
Georges Perec
“a novel which is called the void or disappearance by a writer named George pereck which is a 300 page novel in French with no”— Edward Frenkel
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The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nietzsche had this book wrote this book in the 19th century called the birth of strategy and he presented this Theory”— Edward Frenkel
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Elements
Euclid
“the system was euclidean geometry developed by Euclid in his famous book elements about 2200 years ago”— Edward Frenkel
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Ars Magna
Gerolamo Cardano
“he wrote a book which is called uh our ass Magna which is a great art of algebra and he was writing solutions for the cubic and quartic equations”— Edward Frenkel
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
“Blade Runner was based on a novel by Philip K dick though Android stream of Electric Sheep that guy was a genius”— Edward Frenkel
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Deep Work
Cal Newport
“Cal Newport wrote a book called Deep work he's a theoretical computer scientist um he took quite seriously the the task of allocating the hours”— Lex Fridman
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“a lot of this has been anticipated by artists the great movie her there you have this guy who is this lonely”— Edward Frenkel
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Blade Runner
Ridley Scott (inferred)
“that was predicted by another great movie yeah right uh so the Blade Runner Blade Runner how interesting that artists could see that so long ago”— Edward Frenkel
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The Matrix
The Wachowskis (inferred)
“it's like how they said in The Matrix whatever has a beginning has an end it's like you cannot go around it”— Edward Frenkel
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