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A
- Edwin A. Abbott
- Flatland (Reading Level: 12)
- Preface to the second and revised edition
- Part 1, This World, Section 1: "Of the Nature of Flatland"
- Part 1, Section 2: "Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland"
- Part 1, Section 3: "Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland"
- Part 1, Section 4: "Concerning the Women"
- Part 1, Section 5: "Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another"
- Part 1, Section 6: "Of Recognition by Sight"
- Part 1, Section 7: "Concerning Irregular Figures"
- Part 1, Section 8: "Of the Ancient Practice of Painting"
- Part 1, Section 9: "Of the Universal Colour Bill"
- Part 1, Section 10: "Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition"
- Part 1, Section 11: "Concerning Our Priests"
- Part 1, Section 12: "Of the Doctrine of Our Priests"
- Part 2, Other Worlds, Section 13: "How I Had a Vision of Lifeland"
- Part 2, Section 14: "How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland"
- Part 2, Section 15: "Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland"
- Part 2, Section 16: "How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland"
- Part 2, Section 17: "How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds"
- Part 2, Section 18: "How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There"
- Part 2, Section 19: "How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desire More; and What Came of It"
- Part 2, Section 20: "How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision"
- Part 2, Section 21: "How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success"
- Part 2, Section 22: "How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Demensions by Other Means, and of the Result"
- "Age" (Reading Level: 1.4)
- "The Ants Go Marching" (Reading Level: 0.7)
- "As I Was Going to St. Ives" (Reading Level: 2.3)
B
- "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"
- W.W. Rouse Ball
- Selections adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (Reading Level: 12)
(Selections adapted from the original text)
- "Rene Descartes"
- "Isaac Barrow"
- "John Wallis"
- "William, Viscount Brouncker"
- "James Gregory"
- "Bonaventura Cavalieri"
- "Christian Huygens"
- "Blaise Pascal"
- "Brook Taylor"
- "John Baptiste Joseph Fourier"
- "Gaspard Monge"
- "Johann Heinrich Lambert"
- "Joseph Louis Lagrange"
- "Johann Friedrich Pfaff"
- "Thomas Simpson"
- "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz"
- "The Bernoullis"
- "Some English Experimental Physicists"
- "The Introduction of Analysis into England"
- "Sir Isaac Newton"
- "French Physicists Cointemporary with Fourier and Poisson"
- "French Contemporaries of Lagrange and Laplace"
- "British Contemporaries of Newton, Taylor, Maclaurin and Simpson"
- "Bell Horses" (Reading Level: 0.2)
- Mary Everest Boole
- Philosophy and Fun of Algebra (Reading Level: 6)
- Intro
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
C
- Lewis Carroll
- The Game of Logic (Reading Level: 11)
- Symbollic Logic (Reading Level: 10.5)
- Syllogism
- Advertisement
- Preface
- Introduction
- Book 1: Chapter 1
- Book 1: Chapter 2
- Book 1: Chapter 3
- Book 1: Chapter 4
- Book 1: Chapter 5
- Book 2: Chapter 1
- Book 2: Chapter 2
- Book 2: Chapter 3
- Book 3: Chapter 1
- Book 3: Chapter 2
- Book 3: Chapter 3
- Book 3: Chapter 4
- Book 4: Chapter 1
- Book 4: Chapter 2
- Book 4: Chapter 3
- Book 4: Chapter 4
- Book 5: Chapter 1
- Book 5: Chapter 2
- Book 6: Chapter 1
- Book 6: Chapter 2
- Book 6: Chapter 3
- Book 7: Chapter 1
- Book 7: Chapter 2
- "Cobbler, Mend My Shoe" (Reading Level: 0.2)
- Levi Leonard Conant, Ph.D.
- The Number Concept (Reading Level: 8.5)
- "A Counting Out Rhyme" (Reading Level: 1)
D
- “A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics: In answer To a Pamphlet of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, intitled, Geometry no Friend to Infidelity, or a Defence of Sir Isaac Newton, and the British Mathematicians. Also an Appendix concerning Mr. Walton’s Vindication of the Principles of Fluxions contained in The Analyst” (Reading Level: 12)
- "A Diller, a Dollar" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- "Dinosaurs" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- "Doubles" (Reading Level: 1.2)
E
- "Elephants at Work and Play" (Reading Level: 2.4)
- "Eulogy of Leonhard Euler" (Reading Level: 12)
F
- "Fish" (Reading Level: 0.2)
- "Five Little Bees" (Reading Level: 1.5)
- "Five Little Blue Birds" (Reading Level: 1.9)
- "Five Little Chickadees" (Reading Level: 2)
- "Five Little Ducks" (Reading Level: 2.8)
- "Five Little Fishes" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- "Five Little Piggies" (Reading Level: 1)
- "Five Little Pumpkins" (Reading Level: 0.9)
- "Five Little Speckled Frogs" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- "Five Little Tadpoles" (Reading Level: 1.5)
- "Fly Away" (Reading Level: 1.1)
G
H
- "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" (Reading Level: 0.6)
I
- "Inly, Minly, Dibbity Fig" (Reading Level: 1.3)
- "Intery, Mintery, Cutery Corn" (Reading Level: 1.1)
J
K
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M
- Alexander MacFarlane
- Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (Reading Level: 12)
- Preface
- Chapter 1: "George Peacock"
- Chapter 2: "Augustus De Morgan"
- Chapter 3: "Sir William Rowan Hamilton"
- Chapter 4: "George Boole"
- Chapter 5: "Arthur Cayley"
- Chapter 6: "William Kingdon Clifford"
- Chapter 7: "Henry John Stephen Smith"
- Chapter 8: "James Joseph Sylvester"
- Chapter 9: "Thomas Penyngton Kirkman"
- Chapter 10: "Isaac Todhunter"
- "Magpie Rhyme" (Reading Level: 0.7)
- "Multiplication" (Reading Level: 0.5)
N
- "Newton" (Reading Level: 7.7)
O
- "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes" (Reading Level: 6.6)
- "One for the Money" (Reading Level: 0.3)
- "One Little Flower, One Little Bee" (Reading Level: 1.5)
- "One Potato, Two Potato" (Reading Level: 0.2)
- "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" (Reading Level: 1)
- "One to Make Ready" (Reading Level: 0.3)
- "One, Two, Three, Four" (Reading Level: 0.1)
- "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" (Reading Level: 0.5)
P
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R
- Carveth Read M.A.
- Logic: Deductive and Inductive (Reading Level: 8.0)
S
- David Eugene Smith
- History of Modern Mathematics (Reading Level: 12)
- Editor's Preface
- Author's Preface
- Article 1: "Introduction"
- Article 2: "Theory of Numbers"
- Article 3: "Irrational and Transcendent Numbers"
- Article 4: "Complex Numbers"
- Article 5: "Quaternions and Ausdehnungslehre"
- Article 6: "Theory of Equations"
- Article 7: "Substitutions and Groups"
- Article 8: "Determinants"
- Article 9: "Quantics"
- Article 10: "Calculus"
- Article 11: "Differential Equations"
- Article 12: "Infinite Series"
- Article 13: "Theory of Functions"
- Article 14: "Probabilities and Least Squares"
- Article 15: "Analytic Geometry"
- Article 16: "Modern Geometry"
- Article 17: "Elementary Geometry"
- Article 18: "Non-Euclidean Geometry"
- "General Tendencies"
- "Sing a Song of Sixpence" (Reading Level: 1)
- "Sing a Song of Sixpence" (Reading Level: 2.6)
- George William Joseph Stock, M.A.
- Deductive Logic (Reading Level: 11)
- Preface
- Intro
- Part 1: Chapter 1
- Part 1: Chapter 2
- Part 1: Chapter 3
- Part 1: Chapter 4
- Part 2: Chapter 1
- Part 2: Chapter 2
- Part 2: Chapter 3
- Part 2: Chapter 4
- Part 2: Chapter 5
- Part 2: Chapter 6
- Part 2: Chapter 7
- Part 2: Chapter 8
- Part 3: Chapter 1
- Part 3: Chapter 2
- Part 3: Chapter 3
- Part 3: Chapter 4
- Part 3: Chapter 5
- Part 3: Chapter 6
- Part 3: Chapter 7
- Part 3: Chapter 8
- Part 3: Chapter 9
- Part 3: Chapter 10
- Part 3: Chapter 11
- Part 3: Chapter 12
- Part 3: Chapter 13
- Part 3: Chapter 14
- Part 3: Chapter 15
- Part 3: Chapter 16
- Part 3: Chapter 17
- Part 3: Chapter 18
- Part 3: Chapter 19
- Part 3: Chapter 20
- Part 3: Chapter 21
- Part 3: Chapter 22
- Part 3: Chapter 23
- Part 3: Chapter 24
- Part 3: Chapter 25
- Part 3: Chapter 26
- Part 3: Chapter 27
- Part 3: Chapter 28
- Part 3: Chapter 29
- Part 3: Chapter 30
- Exercises 1
- Exercises 2
- Exercises 3
- "Sympathy" (Reading Level: 8)
T
- "Ten in the Bed" (Reading Level: 0.6)
- "Ten Little Indians" (Reading Level: 1)
- "Thirty Days Hath September" (Reading Level: 6.5)
- "This Little Froggy" (Reading Level: 0.3)
- "This Little Piggy" (Reading Level: 1)
- "This Old Man" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Reading Level: 0.6)
- "Three Young Rats" (Reading Level: 0.5)
- Isaac Todhunter
- Spherical Trigonometry (Reading Level: 12)
U
- "Uno, Dos, y Tres" (Reading Level: 0.5)
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