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A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon
Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads
Albert Leon Whiteman (1915-1995)
Ancient Geometry and Insights into the History of Mathematics
AndrÈ Weil as I Knew Him
Archimedes Palimpsest

This site is a companion piece to an Archimedes exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. The Gallery exhibit is centered around The Archimedes Palimpsest, a rare and ancient document that contains a compendium of the Greek mathematicians's work, the only copy of his essay, Method of Mechanical Theorems, and the only source for the treatise, On Floating Bodies, in the original Greek.

Biographical Studies
Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics
Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
Daniel Bernoulli and the Making of the Fluid Equation
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

The National Institue of Standards and Technology hosts this dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Entries are listed by area or type, and there is a search function as well. Each term has provides a definition and related terms, and many have information about implementation from NIST and other sites. This is a very useful resource for anyone working with, or studying, algorithms or data structures.

Earliest Known Uses of some of the Words in Mathematics
Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols
Easter Rosh Hashanah and Passover
Electronic Library of Mathematics
Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics
Erdos Number Project
Eric Weisstein's World of Science

This site serves as the hub to several Eric Weisstein encyclopedic science websites. From this page, a user can access sites on astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and scientific biography. Each of the sites devoted to a discipline offer definitions, explanations of theories, experiments, and formulas. The biography site offers the most pure history and it contains short entries on more than a thousand personalities. The entries are organized alphabetically, by discipline, by time period, and by nationality.

Ernmy Noether Lectures
Foundations of Mathematics
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