Historical Math Monographs
The Cornell University Library has digitized and posted 576 fragile historical mathematical monographs. Dating mostly from the 1880s through the early 1900s, these freely accessible materials run the gamut from popular education, like Mary Everest Boole’s Philosophy and Fun of Algebra (1909), to traditional scientific publications, such as Henri Poincare’s monographs.
This looks like a great collection for research on both popular and scholarly aspects of mathematical history.
The collection can be browsed by title or author, and the full text of each book can be searched individually. The entire collection can be searched by traditional citation information or in full text, as well. Once you’ve found what you need, the book can be read as a facsimile image or OCR captured plain text.
Below: What Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson) worked on when he wasn’t dreaming up wonderland…
