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Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman Podcast #246

Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman Podcast #246

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

Love and Math

Edward Frenkel

“that book is great i recommend it highly”
“there's a book for instance by edward frankel about love and math and oh yeah that book is great i recommend it highly”— Lex Fridman
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Second Creation

Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann

“one of the best ones i know”
“there's also a very very good kind of history of of the kind of what happened during this 20th century in physics... it's called the second creation”— guest

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations

Peter Woit

“i'm tempted to kind of start trying to explain what i think is this most powerful idea... but in some sense i wrote a whole textbook about that”— guest
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Not Even Wrong

Peter Woit

“part of the point of the book and its title was that you know that this this ultimately was it was a failure”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

AlphaZero

DeepMind (inferred)

“saying that a program can learn its way without any human supervision as alpha zero does to play chess”— Lex Fridman