15+ Great Classical Books By Legendary Scientists and Mathematicians

From Primo Levi and Einstein to Feynman and Euclid, we curated twenty-five excellent books written by world-famous scientists. These are legendary texts, popular science explainers, personal memoirs, and controversial new theories, and they’re all enduring monuments to the power of science.

1. Byrne. Six Books of Euclid — Euclid
2. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
3. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
4. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory — 100th Anniversary Edition — Albert Einstein
5. The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick — Benoit Mandelbrot
6. A History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
7. The Periodic Table — Primo Levi
8. The Republic — Plato
9. Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook — Maria Montessori
10. Ideas and Opinions — Albert Einstein
11. A Mathematician’s Apology — G. H. Hardy
12. What Is Life? — Erwin Schrödinger
13. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA — James D. Watson
14. One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science — George Gamow
15. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems — Galileo Galilei
16. Newton’s Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy — Isaac Newton
17. The Fractal Geometry of Nature — Benoît B. Mandelbrot
18. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman — Richard P. Feynman
19. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter — Richard P. Feynman

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