
Eric Weinstein Book Recommendations
Eric Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's personal investment firm, since 2015.
(Read more on Wikipedia)89 Books Recommended
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
by Rene Girard
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The Theoretical Minimum
What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
by Leonard Susskind
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Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)
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Not Even Wrong
The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law
by Peter Woit
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Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by Noam Chomsky
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A History of Economic Theory
Classic Contributions, 1720-1980
by Jürg Niehans
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I Always Look Up the Word Egregious
by Maxwell Nurnberg
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Science Since Babylon
by Derek De Solla Price
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Save The Cat!
The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
by Blake Snyder
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Neville Medhora, Tim Ferriss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Donald Miller
The Whole Shebang
A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris
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Accounting for Tastes
by Gary S. Becker
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Eat the Rich
A Treatise on Economics
by P. J. O'Rourke
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The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
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George Raveling, Patrick Bet-David, Marc Andreessen, Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Mark Manson
Heraclitean Fire
Sketches from a Life Before Nature
by Erwin Chargaff
"When I heard that there was somebody who bet against Watson and Crick, I thought, 'well, this is just gonna be the laugh of the century.' But it turned out, just to short those guys required another genius." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
36 Lectures in Biology
by S.E. Luria
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All the Trouble in the World
The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
by P. J. O'Rourke
"Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Tim Ferriss
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Tristan Harris, Charles Poliquin, Walter Isaacson, Daniel Pink, Blake Mycoskie, Marc Andreessen, David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Silva, Mike Shinoda, Mark Bell, Tim Draper, Maurice Ashley, Derek Sivers, Rolf Potts, A.J. Jacobs, Caterina Fake, Ev Williams, Gary Keller, Laura R Walker, Marc Goodman, Mike Maples, Jr., Lewis Howes, Jodie Cook, Brian Dean, Michael Hyatt
Elements of Information Theory
by Thomas M. Cover
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Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
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Jordan Peterson, Jason Silva, Darren Aronofsky, Tai Lopez, Shay Carl, Mark Manson, Marc Maron
Basic Algebra I
by Nathan Jacobson
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The Loom of Language
An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
by Frederick Bodmer
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An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory
by K Moriyasu
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Father to Son
Life Lessons on Raising a Boy
by Harry H. Harrison Jr.
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The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
by Stephon Alexander
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The Geometric Universe
Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose
by S. A. Huggett
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
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The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
by Chandler Burr
"A wonderful introduction to how the dissident voice is marginalized." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
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Peddling Prosperity
Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman
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A Guide to LATEX
Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users
by Helmut Kopka
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Pattern Classification
by Richard O. Duda
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A Literary Companion to Science
by Walter Gratzer
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The Penguin Russian Course
A Complete Course for Beginners
by J. L. I. Fennell
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Age and Guile
Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
by P. J. O'Rourke
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Introduction to Econometrics
by James H Stock
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The Beat of a Different Drum
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by Jagdish Mehra
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The Annotated Alice
by Lewis Carroll
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Gravitation
by Charles W. Misner
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Calculus On Manifolds
A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus
by Michael Spivak
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QED and the Men Who Made It
by Silvan S. Schweber
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Makam
Modal Practice In Turkish Art Music
by Karl L. Signell PhD
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Ringside
A History of Professional Wrestling in America
by Scott Beekman
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More Heat than Light
Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics
by Philip Mirowski
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Out of My Later Years
The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
by Albert Einstein
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Quantum Mechanics
The Theoretical Minimum
by Leonard Susskind
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Elements of the Theory of Computation
by Harry Lewis
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Concepts of Particle Physics
Volume I
by Kurt Gottfried
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Introductory Econometrics
A Modern Approach
by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
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Perfumes
The Guide
by Luca Turin
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Give War a Chance
Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
by P. J. O'Rourke
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The Diary of Anais Nin
Complete in 4 Volumes
by Anais Nin
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Encyclopedia of Physics
by Rita Lerner
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Shelter Island II
by Roman Jackiw
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Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation
by Richard E. Crandall
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Grand Unified Theories
by Graham Ross
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The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
by Stephen W. Hawking
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100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Act-By-Act Synopses
by Henry W. Simon
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Introduction to Linear Algebra
by Gilbert Strang
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Differential Topology
by Victor Guillemin
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Colloquial Turkish
The Complete Course for Beginners
by Ad Backus
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Teach Yourself Hindi
Complete Course
by Rupert Snell
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Essential Relativity
Special, General, and Cosmological
by Wolfgang Rindler
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1
Basics
by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
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Modern Elementary Particle Physics
Explaining and Extending the Standard Model
by Gordon Kane
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Everyday Indonesian
by Thomas Oey
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Spoken and Written Hindi
by Bal Govind Misra
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Modern Geometry ― Methods and Applications
Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields
by B.A. Dubrovin
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Introduction to Superstrings
by Michio Kaku
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General Relativity for Mathematicians
by R.K. Sachs
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology
Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology
by Norriss S. Hetherington
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Topology and Analysis
The Atiyah-Singer Index Formula and Gauge-Theoretic Physics
by B. Booss
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Quantum Field Theory and Topology
by Albert S. Schwarz
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics
by R. Shankar
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Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions
by Chris Quigg
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Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology
by Raoul Bott
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Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
by Stephen A. Fulling
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The Ideas of Particle Physics
by J. E. Dodd
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Lie Algebras In Particle Physics
From Isospin To Unified Theories
by Howard Georgi
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Prison Diary
by Jayaprakash Narayan
"I suggest [this book] for this moment in our democracy." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel
"If you really understand something that the rest of the world is confused about, and it’s an important truth, [this book] says here are all the ways you might want to make that work." - Eric Weinstein (Source)
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