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Mathematics, history

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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

Sir Isaac Newton

1687 ★ 3.9

History of the theory of numbers

Leonard E. Dickson

1919

Zero

Charles Seife

2000 ★ 4.1

Capitalism and arithmetic

Frank Swetz

1986

Descartes' secret notebook

Amir D. Aczel

2005

The exact sciences in antiquity

O. Neugebauer

1957

Mathematical masterpieces

Jerry M. Lodder, Art Knoebel, David Pengelley et al.

2007

Men of mathematics

Eric Temple Bell

1986 ★ 3.5

A history of mathematics

Florian Cajori

1909

Mathematics in Western culture

Morris Kline

1953

The emergence of the theory of Lie groups

Thomas Hawkins

2000

The concepts of the calculus

Carl B. Boyer

1959

Infinitesimal

Amir Alexander

2014 ★ 3.7

When Least Is Best

Paul J. Nahin

2003

Mathematics and the laws of nature

John Tabak

2004

Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1978

Math through the ages

William P. Berlinghoff

2002

Eléments d'histoire des mathématiques

Nicolas Bourbaki

1994

Euclid

Benno Artmann

1999

The mathematical theory of communication

Claude Elwood Shannon

1949

The Artist and the Mathematician

Amir D. Aczel

2007

Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition

A. C. Crombie

1995

An introduction to the history of mathematics

Howard Whitley Eves

1953

Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture

T. E. Rihll, Christopher Tuplin

2002

Book 7 of the Collection

Alexander Jones, Pappus of Alexandria

1986

Story of Mathematics

Ian Stewart

2008

Möbius and his band

Robin J. Wilson, John Fauvel, Raymond Flood

1993

A Curious History Of Mathematics

Joel Levy

2013

Four Colours Suffice

Robin J. Wilson

2002

The history of mathematics

David M. Burton

1991