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Undergraduate 4
12/12/2007
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Almagest
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Ptolemy
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Arithmetica
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Diophantus
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Extensive Revision of the Elements
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Theon of Alexandria
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The elements
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Euclid
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The Method of Mechanical Theorems
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Archimedes
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Data
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Euclid
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The Sand Reckoner
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Archimedes
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On the Division of Figures
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Euclid
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Phaenonomena
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Euclid
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Optics
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Euclid
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On Floating Bodies
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Archimedes
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On the Measurement of a circle
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Archimedes
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On the Sphere and the Cylinder
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Archimedes
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On Spiral Lines
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Archimedes
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On the Equilibrium of Planes
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Archimedes
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Geometria Indivisibilus
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Cavaliere
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De analysis per Aequantimes infinitas
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Newton
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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Newton
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The nine Chapters
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Svanjing and Svanjing
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The Sea Island Mathematical Manual
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Liu Hui
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Symbolic Algebra
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Shiji
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Kitab al-jam'wal tafiq bi hisab al-hind
or The Book on addition and subtrationcs after the methods of the Indians
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Al-Khwarizmi
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Al-Kitab al-muhtasar fi hisab al-jabr
or The condensed book on the calculation of reunion and separation
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Al-Khwarizmi
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Hisab al-jabr w'al- muqabalah
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Al Kwarizmi
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Die Theinde (Tenth)
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Simon Stevens
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The Calculators Key
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Al-Kashi
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Al-Fakhri (The Marvelous)
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Abu-Bakr al-karaji
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The Shining book of Calculations
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al-samawal
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Rubaiyat of omar Kyayyam
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Umar al-Khayyami
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Liber Abacci
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Fibonacci
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On Arithmetic
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Nemore
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The Art of the Calculator
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Rabbi Levi Ban Gershon
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Triparti En le Science des numbers
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Nicholas Chuquet
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The wet Stone of Witte
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Robert Recorde
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ARS Magna
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Cardano
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Mysterium Cosmographicum
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Kepler
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Astranomia Nova
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Kepler
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On Proportion
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Frncesca
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De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae
The Value of Chances in Games of Fortune
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Huygens
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Geometria Indivisibulus
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Cavaliere
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The Analyst
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Bishop George Berkley
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Analytical Institutions
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Maria Agnesi
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Disquistiones Arithmeticae
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Gauss
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Disquistimes generalales circa superficies cuevas
Discussion on Curved Surfaces
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Gauss
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Euclides ab omni neavo vindicatus
Euclid with all flaws removed
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Saccheri
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Every group of odd order is Solvable
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Frit and Thompson
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The Classification of (Finate or Final) Simple Groups
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Group of Mathematicians headed by Gorenstein
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A treatise of Algebra
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Peacock
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Aus de hnung slehre
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Herman Gunter Grassman
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Cours d'Analyse
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Cauchy
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Grundgesteze de Arithmetic
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Gottleb Frege
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Principia Mathmeatica (Contains the vicious circle)
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B.Russel & A Qhitehead
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Godel-Echer-Bach
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Douglas Hossetler
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Mechanisms of the Heavens
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Mary Fairfax-Sommerville
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On the Rotation of a Solid Body About a Fixed Point
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Kovaleski
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