500 Pure science

124 books in this stack, divided by Dewey ten-class.

500 Science · 25

Cover of Science and the Modern World
504

Science and the Modern World

Alfred North Whitehead

1925

Recommended
Cover of Generation of Animals
500

Generation of Animals

Aristotle

1942

Must-Read
Cover of Physics
500

Physics

Aristotle

1472

Must-Read
Cover of The New Fire
500

The New Fire

Ben Buchanan

2022

Must-Read
Cover of The Demon-Haunted World
501

The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan

1995

Must-Read
Cover of Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
509.24

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Charles Babbage

1864

Recommended
Cover of The Descent of Man
500

The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

1871

Must-Read
Cover of The Voyage of the Beagle
508.83

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin

1839

Must-Read
Cover of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
500

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Christopher Bishop

2008

Must-Read
Cover of The Secret House
500

The Secret House

David Bodanis

1986

Recommended
Cover of Beginning of Infinity
501

Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

2008

Must-Read
Cover of Science and Hypothesis
501

Science and Hypothesis

Henri Poincaré

1905

Must-Read
Cover of The Foundations of Science
501

The Foundations of Science

Henri Poincaré

1913

Must-Read
Cover of Sciences of the Artificial
501

Sciences of the Artificial

Herbert Simon

1969

Must-Read
Cover of Deep Learning
500

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

2016

Must-Read
Cover of Order Out of Chaos
501

Order Out of Chaos

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

1984

Must-Read
Cover of My First Summer in the Sierra
508.097944

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Reid Muir

1911

Recommended
Cover of The Logic of Scientific Discovery
501.8

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

1934

Must-Read
Cover of Complexity
501

Complexity

Mitchell Waldrop

1992

Must-Read
Cover of Downstream
500

Downstream

National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Committee on Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research

1999

Recommended
Cover of Cybernetics
500

Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener

1948

Must-Read
Cover of Critical Mass
500

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

2004

Recommended
Cover of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
501.185

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Steven Strogatz

1994

Must-Read
Cover of Sync
500

Sync

Steven Strogatz

2003

Must-Read
Cover of Structure of Scientific Revolutions
501

Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

1955

Must-Read

510 Mathematics · 74

Cover of R in a Nutshell
519.502855133

R in a Nutshell

Adler, Joseph M.Eng

2010

Recommended
Cover of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
510

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

Al Sweigart

2015

Recommended
Cover of Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats
510

Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats

Alex Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, Sergey Bratus

2019

Recommended
Cover of Think Stats
510

Think Stats

Allen Downey

2011

Recommended
Cover of Doing Math with Python
510.2855133

Doing Math with Python

Amit Saha

2015

Recommended
Cover of Cyberjutsu
510

Cyberjutsu

Ben McCarty

2021

Recommended
Cover of OpenStack for Architects
510

OpenStack for Architects

Ben Silverman, Michael Solberg

2018

Recommended
Cover of Introduction to Topology
513.83

Introduction to Topology

Bert Mendelson

1962

Must-Read
Cover of Elements of Mathematics
510.9

Elements of Mathematics

Bourbaki

1965

Recommended
Cover of Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
510

Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

Carl Friedrich Gauss

2009

Must-Read
Cover of The Shellcoder's Handbook, Second Edition: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
510

The Shellcoder's Handbook, Second Edition: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes

Chris Anley, John Heasman, Felix Lindner, Gerardo Richarte

2004

Recommended
Cover of Applied Network Security Monitoring
510

Applied Network Security Monitoring

Chris Sanders

2014

Recommended
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer
510

The Pragmatic Programmer

David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

1999

Must-Read
Cover of Introduction to Probability
510

Introduction to Probability

Dimitri Bertsekas & John Tsitsiklis

2002

Must-Read
Cover of Concrete Mathematics
510

Concrete Mathematics

Donald E. Knuth

1989

Must-Read
Cover of Surreal Numbers
512.7

Surreal Numbers

Donald E. Knuth

1974

Must-Read
Cover of Godel Escher Bach
511.3

Godel Escher Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

1979

Must-Read
Cover of Six Degrees
511.5

Six Degrees

Duncan J. Watts

2003

Must-Read
Cover of Flatland
513.088

Flatland

Edwin Abbott

1884

Must-Read
Cover of Category Theory in Context
510

Category Theory in Context

Emily Riehl

2016

Must-Read
Cover of Network Security Bible
510

Network Security Bible

Eric Cole

2004

Recommended
Cover of Elements
519

Elements

Euclid

1482

Must-Read
Cover of A Mathematician's Apology
510

A Mathematician's Apology

G. H. Hardy

1940

Must-Read
Cover of How to Solve It
510.7

How to Solve It

George Pólya

1945

Must-Read
Cover of Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
511.3

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

George Pólya

1954

Must-Read
Cover of Penetration Testing
510

Penetration Testing

Georgia Weidman

2014

Recommended
Cover of Concrete Mathematics
510

Concrete Mathematics

Graham, Knuth, Patashnik

1988

Must-Read
Cover of Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
512.81

Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

Hardy & Wright

1938

Must-Read
Cover of Proofs and Refutations
511.3

Proofs and Refutations

Imre Lakatos

1976

Must-Read
Cover of Topology
514

Topology

James Munkres

1988

Must-Read

+ 44 more in Mathematics.

520 Astronomy · 4

Cover of Nicomachean Ethics
521.54

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

350 BCE

Must-Read
Cover of Cosmos
523.1

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

1980

Must-Read
Cover of Pale Blue Dot
523.1

Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan

1994

Must-Read
Cover of Celestial Bodies
520

Celestial Bodies

Samuel Kazlow

2014

Recommended

530 Physics · 8

Cover of Elegant Universe
539.7258

Elegant Universe

Brian Greene

1999

Must-Read
Cover of Opticks
535

Opticks

Isaac Newton

1730

Must-Read
Cover of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
531

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

1687

Must-Read
Cover of Genius
530.092

Genius

James Gleick

1992

Must-Read
Cover of QED
539.756

QED

Richard Feynman

1985

Must-Read
Cover of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
530.092

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

1985

Must-Read
Cover of The Feynman Lectures on Physics
530

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman

1963

Must-Read
Cover of A Brief History of Time
530.11

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

1988

Must-Read

540 Chemistry · 1

Cover of The Periodic Table
546.8

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

1975

Must-Read

550 Earth sciences · 1

Cover of The Sea Around Us
551.46

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson

1950

Must-Read

560 Paleontology · 1

Cover of Wonderful Life
560.9

Wonderful Life

Stephen Jay Gould

1989

Recommended

570 Biology · 7

Cover of The Columbian Exchange
574.5

The Columbian Exchange

Alfred W. Crosby

1972

Recommended
Cover of Origin of Species
575.0162

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

1859

Must-Read
Cover of The Double Helix
574.873

The Double Helix

James Watson

1968

Must-Read
Cover of Climbing Mount Improbable
574

Climbing Mount Improbable

Richard Dawkins

1996

Recommended
Cover of The Blind Watchmaker
576.8

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

1986

Must-Read
Cover of The Selfish Gene
576.5

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

1976

Must-Read
Cover of The Panda's Thumb
575

The Panda's Thumb

Stephen Jay Gould

1980

Recommended

590 Zoology · 3

Cover of History of Animals
591

History of Animals

Aristotle

1476

Must-Read
Cover of Parts of Animals
590

Parts of Animals

Aristotle

1853

Must-Read
Cover of Sociobiology
591.5

Sociobiology

E.O. Wilson

1975

Recommended