Mathematics of motion / Galileo Galilei --
Kinetic theory of gases / Daniel Bernoulli --
Longitude / Lloyd A. Brown --
John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune / Sir Harold Spencer Jones --
Atomic numbers / H.G.J. Moseley --
Rontgen Rays / Sir William Bragg --
Crystals and the future of physics / Philippe Le Corbeiller --
What is calculus pf variations and what are its applications? / Karl Menger --
The soap-bubble / C. Vernon Boys --
Plateau's problem / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins --
Periodic law of the chemical elements / Dmitri Mendeleeff --
Mendeleeff / Bernard Jaffe --
Mathematics of heredity / Gregor Mendel --
On being the right size / J.B.S. Haldane --
Heredity and the quantum theory / Erwin Schrodinger --
On magnitude / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson --
The uncertainty principle / Werner Heisenberg --
Causality and wave mechanics / Erwin Schrodinger --
Constants of nature / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington --
New law of gravitation and the old law / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington --
Theory of relativity / Clement V. Durell --
Gustav Theodor Fechner / Edwin G. Boring --
Classification of men according to their natural gifts / Sir Francis Galton --
Mathematics of population and food / Thomas Robert Malthus --
Mathematics of value and demand / Augustin Cournot --
Theory of political economy / William Stanley Jevons --
Mathematics of war and foreign politics / Lewis Fry Richardson --
Statistics of deadly quarrels / Lewis Fry Richardson --
Theory of economic behavior / Leonid Hurwicz --
Theory of games / S. Vajda --
Sociology learns the language of mathematics / Abraham Kaplan --
Concerning probability / Pierre Simon de Laplace --
The red and black / Charles Sanders Peirce --
Application of probability to conduct / John Maynard Keynes --
Chance / Henri Poincare --
Meaning of probability / Ernest Nagel.

This set was designed to make mathematics more accessible to the civilian. It includes non-technical essays and numerous articles.

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