A source book in mathematics
by David Eugene Smith · first published 1929
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…to Complexity/Time Period you need a "Expert" who can explain the main ideas to the Student. So what Books can HN folks recommend that fall into this category? A few examples from my collection; 1) A Source Book in Mathematics by David Eugene Smith. 2) Newton's Principia for the Common Reader by S. Chandrasekhar. 3) The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper On Computability And The Turing Machine…
on “Ask HN: Books on Maths/Physics/etc. explaining the Original Discoveries?” ↗"A Source Book in Mathematics" by David Eugene Smith. ISBN 0486646904. Short description: The writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others in a comprehensive selection of 125 treatises dating from the Renaissance…
on “Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?” ↗…heart of the matter in the simplest manner possible. To this end i try and collect some of the original texts with detailed explanations so that i can learn from them. Some interesting ones are; 1) A Source Book in Mathematics by David Eugene Smith (Dover Publications) - https://archive.org/details/sourcebookinmath00smit 2) Newton's Principia for the Common Reader by Nobel-prize winning Physicist S.Chandrasekhar - https://archive.org/details/newtonsprincipia0000chan…
on “Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics” ↗Smith, "A Source Book in Mathematics" https://archive.org/details/sourcebookinmath00smit Contains the writings by Leibniz and Pascal on calculating machines.
on “Creating a Computer Science Canon (2003) [pdf]” ↗