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Mathematical Treasures (maa.org)
90 points by vo2maxer on Nov 2, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This index only includes “treasures” from two collections - there’s a more comprehensive index here: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/index-to-m...

My personal favorite is this one, the only mathematical proof ever published by a U.S. President — James A. Garfield’s 1876 proof of the Pythagorean Theorem: https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematic...


Oxford's Bodleian library also recently (partially) opened its post-1500s books and manuscripts collection online:

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

(Doesn't include their famous illuminated medieval manuscripts collection though.)




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