Mathematics
The science of number and magnitude, its objects and its methods of proof.
Works to read
- Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa, c. AD 100 · Great Books
- The Geometry by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- Elements, Books I-VI by Euclid, c. 300 BC · Great Books
- Elements, Book I by Euclid, c. 300 BCE · Great Books
- The Method (Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics) by Archimedes, c. 250 BCE · Great Books
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Rene Descartes, c. 1628 (published 1701) · Great Books
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- Scientific and Mathematical Treatises by Blaise Pascal, 1647-1654 · Great Books
- Ethics by Baruch Spinoza, 1677 · Great Books
- Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare, 1902 · Great Books
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, 1916 · Great Books
- A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy, 1940 · Great Books
Passages
The force of rigid demonstrations such as occur only in mathematics fills me with wonder and delight
— Galileo Galilei, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Second to Fourth Days)
The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena, like the functions of mathematics.
— Ernst Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures
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