The world of mathematics: a small library of the literature of mathematics from A`h-mose the scribe to Albert Einstein

Volume One. Nature of mathematics / Philip E. B. Jourdain --

Great mathematicians / Herbert Westren Turnbull --

Rhind papyrus / James R. Newman --

Archimedes / Plutarch, Vitruvius, Tzetzes --

Greek mathematics / Ivor Thomas --

Declaration of the profit of arithmeticke / Robert Recorde --

Johann Kepler / Oliver Lodge --

Geometry / Rene Descartes --

Isaac Newton / E. N. Da C. Andrade --

Newton, the man / John Maynard Keynes --

Analyst / Bishop Berkeley --

Gauss, the prince of mathematicians ; Invariant twins, Cayley and Sylvester / Eric Temple Bell --

Srinivasa Ramanujan / James R. Newman --

My mental development / Bertrand Russell --

Mathematics as an element in the history of thought / Alfred North Whitehead --

Sand reckoner / Archimedes --

Counting / Levi Leonard Conant --

From numbers to numerals and from numerals to computation / David Eugene Smith and Jekuthiel Ginsburg --

Calculating prodigies / W. W. Rouse Ball --

Ability of birds to "count" / O. Koehler --

Queen of mathematics / Eric Temple Bell --

On the binomial theorem for fractional and negative exponents / Isaac Newton --

Irrational numbers / Richard Dedekind --

Definition of number / Bertrand Russell --

Exactness of mathematical law /; Postulates of the science of space ; On the space theory of matter / William Kingdon Clifford --

Seven bridges of Konigsberg / Leonhard Euler --

Topology / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins --

Durer as a mathematician / Erwin Panofsky --

Projective geometry / Morris Kline --

On the origin and significance of geometrical axioms / Hermann von Helmholtz --

Symmetry / Hermann Weyl --

Volume Two. Mathematics of motion / Galileo Galilei --

Kinetic theory of gases / Daniel Bernoulli --

Longitude / Lloyd A. Brown --

John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune / Harold Spencer Jones --

Atomic numbers / H. G. J. Moseley --

Rontgen rays / William Bragg --

Crystals and the future of physics / Philippe Le Corbeiller --

What is calculus of variations and what are its aplications? / Karl Menger --

Soap-bubble / C. Vernon Boys --

Plateau's problem / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins --

Periodic law of the chemical elements / Dmitri Mendeleeff --

Mendeleeff / Bernard Jaffe --

Mathematics of heredity / Gregor Mendel --

On being the right size ; Mathematics of natural selection / J. B. S. Haldane --

Heredity and quantum theory / Erwin Schrodinger --

On magnitude / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson --

Uncertainty principle / Werner Heisenberg --

Causality and wave mechanics / Erwin Schrodinger --

Constants of nature ; New law of gravitation and the old law / Arthur Stanley Eddington --

Theory of relativity / Clement V. Durell --

Gustav Theodor Fechner / Edwin G. Boring --

Classification of men according to their natural gifts / Francis Galton --

Mathematics of population and food / Thomas Robert Malthus --

Mathematics of value and demand / Augustin Cournot --

Theory of political economy / William Stanley Jevons --

Mathematics of war and foreign politics / Lewis Fry Richardson --

Statistics of deadly quarrels / Lewis Fry Richardson --

Theory of economic behavior / Leonid Hurwicz --

Theory of games / S. Vajda --

Sociology learns the language of mathematics / Abraham Kaplan --

Concerning probability / Pierre Simon de Laplace --

Red and the black ; Probability of induction / Charles Sanders Peirce --

Application of probability to conduct / John Maynard Keynes --

Chance / Henri Poincare --

Meaning of probability / Ernest Nagel --

Volume Three. Foundations of vital statistics / John Graunt --

First life insurance tables / Edmund Halley --

Law of large numbers / Jacob Bernoulli --

Sampling and standard error / L. C. Tippett --

On the average and scatter / M. J. Moroney --

Mathematics of a lady tasting tea / Ronald A. Fisher --

Vice of gambling and the virtue of insurance / George Bernard Shaw --

Group concept / Cassius J. Keyser --

Theory of groups / Arthur Stanley Eddington --

Mathematics and the metaphysicians / Bertrand Russell --

Infinity / Hans Hahn --

On the nature of mathematical truth ; Geometry and empirical science / Carl G. Hempel --

Axiomatic method / Raymond L. Wilder --

Goedel's proof / Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman --

Mathematical science / Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young --

Mathematics and the world / Douglas Gasking --

Mathematical postulates and human understanding / Richard von Mises --

Study that knows nothing of observation / James Joseph Sylvester --

Essence of mathematics / Charles Sanders Peirce --

Economy of science / Ernst Mach --

Measurement ; Numerical laws and the use of mathematics in science / Norman Campbell --

Mathematical way of thinking / Hermann Weyl --

Mathematical analysis of logic / George Boole --

History of symbolic logic / Clarence Irving Lewis and Cooper Harold Langford --

Symbolic notation, haddocks' eyes and the dog-walking ordinance / Ernest Nagel --

Symbolic logic / Alfred Tarski --

Paradox lost and paradox regained / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman --

Crisis in intuition / Hans Hahn --

How to solve it / G. Polya --

New names for old Edward Kasner and James R. Newman --

Mathematics as an art / John William Navin Sullivan --

Volume Four. Mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy --

Mathematical creation / Henri Poincare --

Mathematician ; General and logical theory of automata / John von Neumann --

Can a machine think / A. M. Turing --

Chess-playing machine / Claude Shannon --

Mathematics in warfare / Frederick William Lanchester --

How to hunt a submarine / Phillip M. Morse and George E. Kimball --

Mathematics of aesthetics / George David Birkhoff --

Mathematical approach to ethics / George David Birkhoff --

Cycloid pudding / Jonathan Swift --

Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley --

Geometry in the South Pacific / Sylvia Townsend Warner --

Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney --

Law / Robert M. Coates --

Mathematics of music / James Jeans --

Meaning of numbers / Oswald Spengler --

Locus of mathematical reality : an anthropological footnote / Leslie A. White --

Assorted paradoxes / Augustus de Morgan --

Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott --

What the tortoise said to Achilles and other riddles / Lewis Carroll --

Lever of Mahomet / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins --

Pastimes of past and present times / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman --

Arithmetical restorations / W. W. Rouse Ball --

Seven seven's / W. E. H. Berwick --

Easy mathematics and lawn tennis / T. J. I'A. Bromwich --

Mathematics for golfers ; Common sense and the universe / Stephen Leacock.