Papers


Some papers, articles, letters and documents I find interesting include:

Bernhard Riemann, Ueber die Hypothesen, Welche der Geometrie zu Grunde Liegen (On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry), 13 Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 133-52 (1867) (delivered June 10, 1854). [ pdf – en, de (transcribed), de (original) ]

Thomas H. Huxley, Charles Darwin, 25:652 Nature 597 (Apr. 27, 1882).

Swami Vivekananda, Address at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago (Sept. 11, 1893). [ pdf ] [ TeX ]

Mark Twain, Letter to Helen Keller (Mar. 17, 1903) [ pdf ] [ TeX ]

Albert Einstein, Zur Elektrodynamik Bewegter Körper (On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies), 17 Annalen Der Physik 891-921 (1905). [ pdf – ende ]

Albert Einstein, Ist die Trägheit Eines, Körpers von Seinem Energieinhalt Abhängig? (Does The Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy-Content?), 18 Annalen Der Physik 639-41 (1905). [ pdf – ende ]

Albert Einstein, Letter to Robert S. Marcus (Feb. 12, 1950).

Richard Feynman, The Value of Science (1955).

Alfred E. Kahn, Memorandum on The Style of Board Orders and Chairman's Letters, Civil Aeronautics Board (June 16, 1977).

Brian W. Kernighan, Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language, AT&T Bell Laboratories Computer Science Technical Report No. 100 (Apr. 2, 1981).

Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust, 27:8 Communications of the ACM 761-63 (Aug. 1984).

Charles M. Hammill, Address at the Future of Freedom Conference: From Crossbows To Cryptography (Nov. 1987). [ pdf ] [ txt ] [ TeX ]

Ted T. Tool, MIT Guide to Lock Picking (Sept. 1, 1991). [ pdf ] [ ps.gz ]

Y. Lazebnik, Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? — Or, What I Learned While Studying Apoptosis, 69:12 Biochemistry (Moscow) 1403-06 (2004).

Laurence Klotz, How (Not) to Communicate New Scientific Information — A Memoir of the Famous Brindley Lecture, 96(7) BJU Int'l 956-57 (Nov. 2005).


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