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Euclid's Elements

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

>>8405011
ehhh, Darwin's book was more influential among wider society, it of course had a scientific importance but i wouldn't rate it as high as Euclid or Newton's masterpieces


I would put Elements, Principia and Newton's General Relativity paper as the top 3 works of science

>>8405014
edit: Einstein's General Relativity paper

>>8405010
>>8405011
<Euclid did no original work

Archimedes was the GOAT greek mathematician

Euclid's Elements

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

transistor

>>8405018
compiling is quite an effort, especially in those times. and having all that knowledge in one book is bretty goat thing to do.

>>8405018
And which of Archimedes publications would you say is more important than the Elements?

>>8405018
Yes but elements itself was still a highly influential text. Euclid did mathematics and western thought a great work by compiling geometric work done by a variety of ancient greek mathematicans into one linear comprehensive text.

>>8405022
Not him but I'd go with How to prevent Bathtub Flooding for Dummies.

>>8405022
I agree

Archimedes was a greater mathematician, but Euclid's Elements is the most influential math book of all time no question

>>8405026
Was Euclid's Elements really more advanced than Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics at the time?

calculus: early transcendentals by james stewart

>>8405025
I preferred 'A concise proof on why soldiers don't care about circles in the asnd'

>euclid's elementa
Not necessarily his own work, but showed people how things could and should be done.

>tractatus logico-philosophicus
A social experiment which proved how the intelligentsia is so fond of their status that they can become a choir repeating a few words they don't even understand to preserve their position by appearing smart.

>a book on dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are always cool. I r8 dinosaurs 8/8! Besides, many posters here have been inspired by reading about those guys in their childhood, so (assuming we aren't just a bunch of losers) these books are a catalyst required for great deeds!

>>8405030
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>euclid's elementa
Not necessarily his own work, but showed people how things could and should be done.

>tractatus logico-philosophicus
A social experiment which proved how the intelligentsia is so fond of their status that they can become a choir repeating a few words they don't even understand to preserve their position by appearing smart.

>a book on dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are always cool. I r8 dinosaurs 8/8! Besides, many posters here have been inspired by reading about those guys in their childhood, so (assuming we aren't just a bunch of losers) these books are a catalyst required for great deeds!

>>8405037
>A social experiment which proved how the intelligentsia is so fond of their status that they can become a choir repeating a few words they don't even understand to preserve their position by appearing smart.
are you talking about wittgenstein shitting on philosophers, or pseudo-philosophers who quote wittgenstein (Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent...) without actually reading him?

>>8405041
Both, the Vienna circle and so on. I'll leave the rest as an exercise. It's time for me to sleep. Good night, frog poster.

>>8405007
Are we talking strictly about written documents? If so then

1) My birth certificate
2) My future degree
3) My future proof of some millenium problem

So now only 1 of the 3 most important works in the history of science has been published.

>>8405050
could you make it any more painfully obvious you don't actually have any idea what you're talking about

Wittgenstein was the most prominent philosophical genius of the 20th century

>>8405074
>philosophical
>genius

Pick one and only one. Philosophers are even below sociologists in the pyramid, man.

>>8405011
>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Wasn't even the most import work published that month. Riemann's "On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude" was vastly more important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Number_of_Primes_Less_Than_a_Given_Magnitude

>>8405090
poor Riemann, died too young

>>8405076
come on... certainly you can put Wittgenstein on the same level as Isaac Newton or Carl Gauss in pure intellect

>>8405097
nah

>>8405069
No, I really was posting with my phone from my bed and was tired enoug to drop my phone and it hurt my head.

Wittgenstein's work was adopted by the Vienna circle with whom he discussed stuff for a while until he got fed up with them not understanding his points. I once read somewhere that one motivator for the Philosophische Untersuchungen was how misunderstood Tractatus was, but I don't think this was his main motive. Nevertheless, real philosophers started shouting "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen!" in suitable contexts in ways Wittgenstein didn't mean his words to be used.