500 Pure science
79 books in this stack, divided by Dewey ten-class.
500 Science · 17
Science and the Modern World
Alfred North Whitehead
1925
Recommended
Physics
Aristotle
1472
Must-Read
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
1995
Must-ReadPassages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
1864
Recommended
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin
1839
Must-ReadThe Secret House
David Bodanis
1986
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Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
2008
Must-ReadScience and Hypothesis
Henri Poincaré
1905
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The Foundations of Science
Henri Poincaré
1913
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Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert Simon
1969
Must-ReadOrder Out of Chaos
Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers
1984
Must-ReadMy First Summer in the Sierra
John Reid Muir
1911
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
1934
Must-Read
Complexity
Mitchell Waldrop
1992
Must-ReadComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Mitchell Waldrop
1993
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Steven Strogatz
1994
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Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
1955
Must-Read510 Mathematics · 36
R in a Nutshell
Adler, Joseph M.Eng
2010
RecommendedDoing Math with Python
Amit Saha
2015
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Introduction to Topology
Bert Mendelson
1962
Must-Read
Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russell
1910
Must-Read
Elements of Mathematics
Bourbaki
1965
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Concrete Mathematics
Donald E. Knuth
1989
Must-Read
Surreal Numbers
Donald E. Knuth
1974
Must-Read
Godel Escher Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
1979
Must-Read Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
1979
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Six Degrees
Duncan J. Watts
2003
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Flatland
Edwin Abbott
1884
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Elements
Euclid
1482
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A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
1940
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How to Solve It
George Pólya
1945
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
George Pólya
1954
Must-Read Concrete Mathematics
Graham, Knuth, Patashnik
1988
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Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Hardy & Wright
1938
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Proofs and Refutations
Imre Lakatos
1976
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Topology
James Munkres
1988
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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
John Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey Ullman
1979
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Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
John Lee
2012
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Mathematics and the Imagination
Kasner & Newman
1940
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Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1964
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Algebra
Michael Artin
2009
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Michael Sipser
2013
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Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
Morris Kline
1985
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Gödel's Proof
Nagel & Newman
1958
Must-ReadWhat Is Mathematics?
Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
1941
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Algebraic Geometry
Robin Hartshorne
1977
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Algebra
Serge Lang
1966
Must-Read+ 6 more in Mathematics.
520 Astronomy · 4
530 Physics · 8
Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
1999
Must-Read
Opticks
Isaac Newton
1730
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
1687
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Genius
James Gleick
1992
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QED
Richard Feynman
1985
Must-Read
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
1985
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Richard Feynman
1963
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
1988
Must-Read540 Chemistry · 1
550 Earth sciences · 1
560 Paleontology · 1
570 Biology · 8
The Columbian Exchange
Alfred W. Crosby
1972
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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
1859
Must-Read Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
1859
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The Double Helix
James Watson
1968
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins
1996
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The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
1986
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
1976
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The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould
1980
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