Books mentioned in “Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI”
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The Harmonics of the World
Johannes Kepler
Tao notes Kepler's third law appears as an aside in this book about planetary musical harmonies.
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The Clockwork Universe
Edward Dolnick
Dwarkesh cites this book's account of the era between Newton's Principia and Darwin's Origin of Species.
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Discussed as Darwin's persuasively written, plain-English book proposing evolution by natural selection.
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Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
Contrasted with Origin of Species as a much earlier, Latin-written, mathematically dense work.
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