One Two Three Infinity

This book by George Gamow was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: Steven Pinker. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Nuclear physicist George Gamow takes the reader on an expedition through the problems, pleasures and puzzles of modern science. Among the topics scrutinized are the macrocosm and the microcosm, theory of numbers, relativity of space and time, entropy, genes, atomic structure, nuclear fission, and the origin of the solar system. In the pages of this book readers grapple with such crucial matters as whether it is possible to bend space, why a rocket shrinks, the "end of the world problem," excursions in the fourth dimension and a host of other topics.

• “loved a book called one two three infinity when I was a young adult I read that book by George gamma the physicist very accessible”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “very accessible in humorous explanations of relativity of number theory of dimensionality... still delightful seventy years after it was published”
  Steven Pinker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 201800:35:35

  Said during "Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason | Lex Fridman Podcast #3". The episode features Steven Pinker: Cognitive psychologist and linguist at Harvard; bestselling author on language, the mind, violence, and reason. Steven Pinker argues AI existential-threat fears are magical thinking, and that reason and engineering culture make AI a humanitarian boon.