Today is, among other things,
Newton's Birthday,
which makes the
flower_cat's gift to me of a copy of
God Created the
Integers: the Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by
Stephen
Hawking particularly appropriate.
It's an anthology of some of the most important papers in mathematics,
with Hawking's introductions, starting with extracts from Euclid's
Elements and ending with Turing's On Computable
Numbers. I'm planning to just read the introductions and skim the
rest -- it's the sort of book in which I could easily lose myself for
months.
Thank you, love!