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Nobel Lectures — Introductory Distillations, a personal reading project
Introductory Distillations to Nobel Lectures is my attempt to make Nobel lectures more walk-in-able while working with AI. The lectures themselves are dense with a lifetime’s work; these pages are brief thresholds—links to the originals, plus short companion notes that distill and decode the longer originals. The idea is to provide an introductory cover to the wealth of original thinking and lifelong work encapsulated in these lectures.
It’s both a growing TBR list and a shareable map of these pearls of human thought.
ECONOMICS
Economics 1998 | The Possiblity of Social Choice | Amartya Sen
Economics 2009 | Beyond Markets and States | Elinor Ostrom
Economics 2002 | Maps of Bounded Rationality | Daniel Kahneman
Economics 2017 | From Cashews to Nudges | Richard H. Thaler
Economics 1974 | The Pretence of Knowledge | Friedrich von Hayek
NATURAL SCIENCES
Physcis 2021 | Groundbreaking Contributions to Complex Physical Systems | Manabe · Hasselmann · Parisi .
Physiology or Medicine 2000 |The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission | Paul Greengard
Physiology or Medicine 2000 | A Half-Century of Neurotransmitter Research | Arvid Carlsson
Physics 2024 Note to Geoffrey Hinton’s Lecture (Physics 2024) – Boltzmann Machines
Chemistry 1954 | Modern Structural Chemistry | Linus Pauling
COUNTRY PRIMERS
To understand the world better, to read about lesser known places – about them, around them, from them.
All notes created with AI. AI can make mistakes. Educational summary; read the original.