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Elements
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Euclid's Elements is the foundational text of geometry and axiomatic mathematical reasoning, influential for over two millennia. Stephen Hawking selected it to open his anthology of the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history, viewing Euclid's method of rigorous proof as the bedrock of all later mathematics.
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Stephen Hawking
Selected and championed by Hawking in his edited anthology 'God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History' (2005), with his own biographical and explanatory commentary.
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Stewart Brand
Recommended on Stewart Brand's Read This Twice profile.