Memorabilia Mathematica (1914) is the philomath’s commonplace book done once and for all: more than a thousand passages on mathematics — its nature, beauty, teaching, history and folklore — gathered by Robert Édouard Moritz from Plato and Aristotle down to Sylvester, Cayley and Poincaré, each carefully sourced and arranged by theme.
A century on it remains the standard quarry for anyone who needs the perfect sentence about mathematics, and browsing it is an education in itself. Download the free EPUB and keep the wisdom of twenty-five centuries of mathematicians within arm’s reach.