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Similar to this topic, what are the easiest foundational French texts for someone learning the language? My intuition would be Cauchy and Lebesgue, but I have no idea where to start or which of their ...

I often hear the advice, "Read the masters" (i.e., read old, classic texts by great mathematicians). But frankly, I have hardly ever followed it. What I am wondering is, is this a ...

Last summer, I read Euclid's Elements, and it was an eye-opening experience; I had assumed that three thousand years' difference would make the notation incomprehensible and the reasoning alien, but ...