Erwin 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
David Abram
James Clerk Maxwell
William Wordsworth
Lord Dunsany
Bertrand Russell
Explanatory Transparency
Roger Penrose
Robert Wald
Moritz Schlik
Major Influences (in reverse chronological order)
Penrose: Reading him showed me that my aphantasia can be an asset while engaging with abstract thoughts - he converted me into a hand-drawn diagram-based thinker. Through reading his discussions of phase spaces (in Emeperor’s New Mind), Fibre Bundles (in Roads to Reality) and Spinors (in Spinors and Spacetime) I developed a more intimate understanding of some wonderfully useful scientific structures.
Douglas Hofstader’s discussion of Godel in GEB: Completely changed my relationship with certainty, rigour, intellectual humility and inspired in me a ‘playful’ approach to exploring beliefs (that in-retrospect one could identify with meta-modernity)
Russell: I respect him immensely as a mathematician and polymath. He inspired the first step I took from worrying about epistemology to engaging sincerely with metaphysics
