Source Material

A list of source material found on the Math Lair. Generally, I believe that the material is in the public domain (at least in Canada) because the copyright has expired, so feel free to copy this material.

• "A Logical Paradox" by Lewis Carroll
• An Excerpt about Archimedes from On Architecture by Vitruvius
• "Archimedes and His Lever"
• "Boarding-House Geometry" by Stephen Leacock
• "Curiosities of Measurement"
• "The Force of Statistics" by Stephen Leacock
• Elements by Euclid (10 proofs from the work)
• History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book by Bibhutibhusan Datta and Avadhesh Narayan Singh
• "Mathematics for Golfers" by Stephen Leacock
• "The Mathematics of the Lost Chord" by Stephen Leacock
• On Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
• Pillow-Problems by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (33 problems from the book)
• The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha S. Loomis (two selections from the book)