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Duel at Dawn
Amir Alexander
“i think you would love a book called duel at dawn”
“i think you would love a book called duel at dawn by amir alexander which i think some of the things you're responding to what i wrote”— guest
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Golly
Golly (inferred)
“a great ipad app called golly which i really like”
“there's actually a great ipad app called golly which i really like that has like conway's original rule and like gosh like hundreds of other variants”— guest
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Mathematical Recreations (Martin Gardner Scientific American columns)
Martin Gardner
“i always recommend like the books of martin gardner”
“i always recommend like the books of martin gardner... he wrote a column in scientific american for decades called mathematical recreations and there's such joy in it”— guest
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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else
Jordan Ellenberg
“in his new book just released recently called shape the hidden geometry of information biology strategy democracy and everything else”— Lex Fridman
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How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
“an author who masterfully reveals the beauty and power of mathematics in his 2014 book how not to be wrong”— Lex Fridman
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Flatland
Edwin Abbott
“i know it from a book called flatland i don't know if you ever read this when you were a kid an adult”— guest
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Macaulay
Macaulay2 (inferred)
“now you type a few lines of code in macaulay or sage or magma and you just have it”— guest
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Sage
SageMath (inferred)
“now you type a few lines of code in macaulay or sage or magma and you just have it”— guest
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Magma
University of Sydney (inferred)
“now you type a few lines of code in macaulay or sage or magma and you just have it”— guest
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Maple
Maplesoft (inferred)
“that's similar to maple and yeah oh yeah so similar to maple and mathematica yeah okay but a little more specialized”— guest
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Mathematica
Wolfram (inferred)
“so similar to maple and mathematica yeah okay but a little more specialized but yeah it's programs that work with symbols”— guest
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
John Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp, Richard Guy
“there's like a book that he wrote with burleigh camping guy called winning ways which is such a rich source of ideas”— guest
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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram (inferred)
“taking these very simple ideas and writing a thousand page book on them meaning like let's play around with this thing”— guest
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Elements de Geometrie Algebrique (EGA)
Alexander Grothendieck (inferred)
“just like read ega the holy textbook el amon de geometry algebraic the elements of algebraic geometry this like 1500 page many volume book”— guest
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