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I am interested in knowing more about various Subjects, Authors and Books. In that context, I would like to chat. I am not using your services as a search engine. So, please do not provide me links to any material. Those links distract me and make me lose my focus. Are you ready?

The Approach

I have a list of subjects, authors, and books. In each successive prompt, I will either give either an author's name, or a subject's title or a book's title.

If I give you an author's name, tell me about the author, the author's major works, key ideas by the author, famous quotes by the author, the legacy of the author, related people, and a list of 10 most famous books by the author.

If I give you a subject's title, then tell me a bit about the subject, the notable people who have worked on that subject, key ideas from that subject, and give me back a list of 10 famous books on that subject. If I repeat the subject's title then give me a list of the next 10 famous books on that subject.

If I give you a book's title, then for that book, tell me the author's name, when the book was written, a summary of what the book is about, the significance of the book, some interesting facts about the author, and other books related to that book. If you cannot interpret my prompt as the name of an Author or the name of a book, then assume it is the name of a subject and find me books in that subject or touch upon the subject.

Got it?

List of Subjects

self-help.
philosophy.
Stoicism
psychology.
economics.
computer programming.
computer science
mathematics.
physics.
chemistry.
biology.
science excluding physics, chemistry and biology.
engineering.
technology.
politics
realpolitik
science fiction.
romantic fiction.
fantasy fiction.
detective fiction.
environmental issues.
social issues.
political issues.
education.

Born Before Current Era

Homer (800 BCE)
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
Pythagoras (570 BCE)
Parmenides (540 BCE or 515 BCE)
Heraclitus (535 BCE)
Zeno of Elea (490 BCE)
- Famous for his Paradoxes
Socrates (470 BCE)
Hippocrates of Kos (460 BCE)
- Father of Medicine
- Hippocratic principles
- The Hippocratic Oath
Plato (428 BCE)
- Plato's Republic
Diogenes (413 BCE)
Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Nicomachean Ethics
- What is a Good Life by Aristotle
Chanakya (350 BCE)
- Arthashastra
Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
Zeno of Citium (334 BCE)
- Zeno's Republic
- Stoicism
Hipparchus (190 BCE)
- Regarded as the father of scientific astronomy
Vitruvius (80 BCE)
- On Architecture
Seneca the Elder (54 BCE)
Seneca the Younger(4 BCE)
- On the shortness of life
- On Tranquility of Mind
- Letters to Lucilius

Born in first 500 years of Current Era

Pliny the Elder (23-79)
Epictetus (50-135)
- Discourses
- Enchiridion
Tacitus (56-120)
- Annals
- Histories
Pliny the Younger (61-113)
Claudius Ptolemy (100-160)
- Almagest
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
- Meditations
- Can Marcus Aurelius be considered a philosopher king? Are there others?
- Who were the Five Good Emperors?
Galen of Pergamon (129-216)
- Galen's Anatomy
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- The city of god

Born in second 500 years of Current Era

Born in third 500 years of Current Era

What is the Renaissance period?

Why is Leonardo da Vinci considered the ultimate Renaissance genius?

Who are the other Renaissance geniuses?

Dante (1265-1321)
- The Divine Comedy
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)
Johannes Gutenberg (1393-1468)
Luca Pacioli (1447-1517)
- Father of Accounting
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- The Prince
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- father of modern astronomy
- Copernican Revolution
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Raphael (1483-1520)

Born in 1500s

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
- father of modern anatomy
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
- Don Quixote
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Developed the Scientific Method.
- Founder of Modern Science
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- there are so many!
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Why is Galileo hailed as the father of modern science?
- Are there other contenders for the title?
Thomas Mun (1571-1641)
- mercantilism
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Leviathan
- Elements of Law by Hobbes
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
William Harvey (1578-1657)

Born in 1600s

John Locke (1632-1704)
- Often called the "Father of Liberalism"
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
George Berkeley (1685-1753)

Born in 1700s

David Hume (1711-1776)
- A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Right and wrong are context dependent.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- Wealth of Nations
- Father of Economics
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
- An Essay on the Principle of Population
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
- Did Hegel provide a critic of Plato's Republic?
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
- Book: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- Pride and Prejudice
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
- Speech is silver, silence is golden

Born in 1800s

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- Les Misérables
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
Jules Dupuit (1804-1866)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Principles of Political Economy
- A System of Logic
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- On the Origin of Species
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Moby-Dick
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- Democracy in America
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- The Communist Manifesto
- Das Kapital
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- War and Peace
Leon Walras (1834-1910)
Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
- Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- The Doctor's Dilemma and many others
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
- Principia Mathematica
- A History of Western Philosophy
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
- Lord of the Rings
Lionel Robbins (1898-1984)

Born in 1900s

George Orwell (1903-1950)
- Animal Farm
- Nineteen Eighty Four
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
- Foundation Series of books and many other books
Gary Becker (1930-2014)
Harper Lee (1926-2016)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
- A Brief History of Time
Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024)
- Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Gilbert (1957-)
- Stumbling on Happiness

Born in 2000s

Jake Marcionette (2000-)