This short book, Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, is meant to be read by children and introduces algebra and logic. She uses the word “algebra” broadly,...
Science and Hypothesis is a book by French mathematician Henri Poincaré, first published in 1902. Aimed at a non-specialist readership, it deals with...
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the American Math...
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two of the essa...
This is an autobiography of Charles Babbage, who invented the mechanical computer in the early 1800s. He writes amusing anecdotes from his life, He sh...
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains ho...
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation of the Fo...
This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the...
Lewis Carroll is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Chu...
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories...
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books,...
The Natural History is a work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural Histor...
This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the important...
The German mathematician David Hilbert was one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th/early 20th century. Hilbert's 20 axioms were first p...
It provides an accessible introduction to the complex concepts of relativity theory, which revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and the na...
Step into the captivating world of one of history's most brilliant minds with "Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect" by Lawrence Wea...
What if there was a land where women ruled the world?
In Mizora: A Prophecy, Mary E. Bradley Lane depicts a feminist utopia in the heart of the Earth...
Dive into the captivating realm of mathematical evolution with "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by Walter William Rouse Ball. In this i...
The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a is to the...
"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian lang...
56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string...
This book, written by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, is a biographical account of the life and work of Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the most in...
This book compiles 22 essays that were submitted to a competition held by Scientific American in 1909, seeking the best popular explanation of the fou...
