Schrodinger (in My View of The World and Science and The Greeks)
Richard Fortey (in Earth: An Intimate History and Life: Natural History of First Four Billion Years)
Howard Stein
Erik Curiel
Prose
James Clerk Maxwell
Bertrand Russell
William Wordsworth
Lord Dunsany
Explanatory Transparency
Roger Penrose
Moritz Schlik
Haven’t Read Nearly Enough but would like to explore more off
C Isham and A Doring: What is a Thing
David Spivak and Brendan Fong: Seven Sketches in Compositionality
Donald Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming
Euler: Letters to a German Princess
Major Influences
Godel and, more specifically, Douglas Hofstader’s discussion of Godel in GEB: Completely changed my relationship with certainty, rigor, intellectual humility and, perhaps, evoked in me a ‘playful’ approach to exploring beliefs which in-retrospect one might identify with meta-modernity
Penrose: Reading him showed me that my Aphantasia can be an asset while engaging with intricate abstract thoughts - he converted me into a hand-drawn diagram-based thinker. Through reading his discussions of phase spaces (in Emepror’s New Mind), Fiber Bundles (in Roads to Reality) and Spinors (in Spinors and Spacetime) I developed a more intimate understanding of our useful scientific structures.
Russell: I respected him immensely as a mathematician and polymath. He inspired the first sincere step I took from worrying about epistemology to engaging with metaphysics
