Lost in Math
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Lost in Math
Sabine Hossenfelder
4 people recommended it in 4 threads, 2018–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder, which was published just a few months ago. It deals with how foundational theoretical physics has been led astray by aesthetic ideals, i.e. "lost in Math", because of the lack of new empirical data during the last decades.
Lost in Maths by Sabine Hossenfelder, and Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. Both were worthwhile.
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