Share:
Eric Weinstein

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)

Online Presence

89 Books Recommended

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

by Rene Girard

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Peter Thiel

The Theoretical Minimum

What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

by Leonard Susskind

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Daemon

by Daniel Suarez

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Elon Musk, Alexis Ohanian

A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (5 books)

Eric Weinstein recommended this series on Twitter. (Source)

Not Even Wrong

The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law

by Peter Woit

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Necessary Illusions

Thought Control in Democratic Societies

by Noam Chomsky

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

A History of Economic Theory

Classic Contributions, 1720-1980

by Jürg Niehans

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

I Always Look Up the Word Egregious

by Maxwell Nurnberg

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Strangest Man

The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Jeff Dean

Science Since Babylon

by Derek De Solla Price

Eric Weinstein recommended this book at a Sam Harris event in Boston. (Source)

Save The Cat!

The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

by Blake Snyder

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Whole Shebang

A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

by Timothy Ferris

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Accounting for Tastes

by Gary S. Becker

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Eat the Rich

A Treatise on Economics

by P. J. O'Rourke

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

by Eric Hoffer

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

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

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

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)

Elements of Information Theory

by Thomas M. Cover

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Nassim Taleb

Einstein's Dreams

by Alan Lightman

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Ev Williams, Patrick O'Shaughnessy

The Denial of Death

by Ernest Becker

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Basic Algebra I

by Nathan Jacobson

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Loom of Language

An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages

by Frederick Bodmer

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

An Elementary Primer For Gauge Theory

by K Moriyasu

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Father to Son

Life Lessons on Raising a Boy

by Harry H. Harrison Jr.

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Symmetry

by Hermann Weyl

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Jazz of Physics

The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

by Stephon Alexander

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Geometric Universe

Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose

by S. A. Huggett

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

by John Maynard Keynes

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Warren Buffett, Brad Delong

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

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Peter Thiel

Peddling Prosperity

Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations

by Paul Krugman

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

A Guide to LATEX

Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users

by Helmut Kopka

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Pattern Classification

by Richard O. Duda

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

A Literary Companion to Science

by Walter Gratzer

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Penguin Russian Course

A Complete Course for Beginners

by J. L. I. Fennell

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Age and Guile

Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

by P. J. O'Rourke

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Introduction to Econometrics

by James H Stock

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Beat of a Different Drum

The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

by Jagdish Mehra

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Annotated Alice

by Lewis Carroll

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Gravitation

by Charles W. Misner

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Calculus On Manifolds

A Modern Approach To Classical Theorems Of Advanced Calculus

by Michael Spivak

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

QED and the Men Who Made It

by Silvan S. Schweber

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Makam

Modal Practice In Turkish Art Music

by Karl L. Signell PhD

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Ringside

A History of Professional Wrestling in America

by Scott Beekman

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

More Heat than Light

Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics

by Philip Mirowski

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Also recommended by:

Michael Mauboussin

Out of My Later Years

The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

by Albert Einstein

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Quantum Mechanics

The Theoretical Minimum

by Leonard Susskind

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Elements of the Theory of Computation

by Harry Lewis

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Concepts of Particle Physics

Volume I

by Kurt Gottfried

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Introductory Econometrics

A Modern Approach

by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Perfumes

The Guide

by Luca Turin

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Give War a Chance

Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

by P. J. O'Rourke

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Diary of Anais Nin

Complete in 4 Volumes

by Anais Nin

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Encyclopedia of Physics

by Rita Lerner

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Shelter Island II

by Roman Jackiw

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation

by Richard E. Crandall

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Grand Unified Theories

by Graham Ross

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

by Stephen W. Hawking

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Supermanifolds

by Bryce DeWitt

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

100 Great Operas And Their Stories

Act-By-Act Synopses

by Henry W. Simon

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Introduction to Linear Algebra

by Gilbert Strang

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Differential Topology

by Victor Guillemin

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Colloquial Turkish

The Complete Course for Beginners

by Ad Backus

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Teach Yourself Hindi

Complete Course

by Rupert Snell

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Essential Relativity

Special, General, and Cosmological

by Wolfgang Rindler

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Analysis, Manifolds and Physics, Part 1

Basics

by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Modern Elementary Particle Physics

Explaining and Extending the Standard Model

by Gordon Kane

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Everyday Indonesian

by Thomas Oey

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Spoken and Written Hindi

by Bal Govind Misra

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Modern Geometry ― Methods and Applications

Part I: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields

by B.A. Dubrovin

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Introduction to Superstrings

by Michio Kaku

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

General Relativity for Mathematicians

by R.K. Sachs

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Encyclopedia of Cosmology

Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology

by Norriss S. Hetherington

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Topology and Analysis

The Atiyah-Singer Index Formula and Gauge-Theoretic Physics

by B. Booss

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Quantum Field Theory and Topology

by Albert S. Schwarz

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Principles of Quantum Mechanics

by R. Shankar

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Gauge Theories Of Strong, Weak, And Electromagnetic Interactions

by Chris Quigg

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology

by Raoul Bott

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

by Stephen A. Fulling

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

The Ideas of Particle Physics

by J. E. Dodd

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

Lie Algebras In Particle Physics

From Isospin To Unified Theories

by Howard Georgi

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him. (Source)

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)