What this chamber argues

• Mathematics builds abstract structures that model many domains.
• It provides precision, proof, and compression.

Primary works in this chamber (17)

• Archimedes — The Works (c. 250 BCE) — Book
• George Boole — The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) — Book
• T.L. Heath — Diophantus Of Alexandria: A Study In the History of Greek Algebra (1910) — Book
• Euclid — The Elements (c. 300 BCE) — Book
• L.F. Menabrea — Sketch of the Analytical Engine (with Notes by Ada Lovelace) (1843) — Paper
• Isaac Newton — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) — Book
• Leonhard Euler — Elements of Algebra (1770) — Book
• Bernhard Riemann — On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry (1854) — Paper
• Leibniz — Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis (1684) — Book
• Georg Cantor — On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers (1874) — Book
• David Hilbert — The Foundations of Geometry (1899) — Book
• Ahmes — The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE) — Book
• Anonymous — The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (九章算術) (c. 200 BCE–100 CE) — Book
• Aryabhata — Aryabhatiya (499 CE) — Book
• Bhāskara II — Lilavati (1150 CE) — Book
• Al-Khwarizmi — The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (c. 820 CE) — Book
• Fibonacci — Liber Abaci (1202) — Book

Connected chambers

• Logic — Formal reasoning
• Statistics — Probability and inference