Best Books of the Greatest Mathematicians

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Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements
by: Euclid
4.32 avg rating — 3,330 ratings
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 4.24 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating — 22,702 ratings
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A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology 3.92 avg rating — 7,546 ratings
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican 4.07 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,919 ratings
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The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics)
The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.25 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Pensées
PensĂ©es 3.94 avg rating — 14,064 ratings
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On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems 4.49 avg rating — 415 ratings
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method 4.13 avg rating — 5,046 ratings
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۱ۚۧŰčÙŠŰ§ŰȘ ŰźÙŠŰ§Ù… 4.17 avg rating — 22,744 ratings
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Philosophical Essays
Philosophical Essays 3.91 avg rating — 4,979 ratings
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Politics
Politics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating — 41,881 ratings
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Science and Hypothesis
Science and Hypothesis 3.95 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Computer and the Brain
The Computer and the Brain 3.90 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Geometry and the Imagination
Geometry and the Imagination 4.51 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Symmetry
Symmetry 3.84 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Essays on the Theory of Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Essays on the Theory of Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.14 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Elements of Algebra
Elements of Algebra 4.34 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Littlewood's Miscellany
Littlewood's Miscellany 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series) 4.03 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1 4.44 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number
The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number 4.20 avg rating — 988 ratings
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Récoltes et semailles: Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien.
RĂ©coltes et semailles: RĂ©flexions et tĂ©moignage sur un passĂ© de mathĂ©maticien. 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
25.
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field 3.97 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae 4.48 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.40 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Computing machinery and intelligence
Computing machinery and intelligence 4.16 avg rating — 542 ratings
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On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry
On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Algebra
Algebra 4.43 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (Dover Books on Mathematics) 3.99 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis
Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Dover Books on Mathematics)
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Dover Books on Mathematics) 3.96 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Conics Books I-III
Conics Books I-III 4.08 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments 3.85 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Introductory Real Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Introductory Real Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.19 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Evariste Galois, 1811-1832
Evariste Galois, 1811-1832 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Charmides/Alcibiades 1-2/Hipparchus/The Lovers/Theages/Minos/Epinomis
Charmides/Alcibiades 1-2/Hipparchus/The Lovers/Theages/Minos/Epinomis
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Course in Arithmetic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 7) (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 7)
A Course in Arithmetic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 7) (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 7) 4.39 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Fibonacci's Liber Abaci: A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation
Fibonacci's Liber Abaci: A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of Calculation 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Analytical Theory of Heat
The Analytical Theory of Heat 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Introduction To Commutative Algebra (Addison-Wesley Series in Mathematics)
Introduction To Commutative Algebra (Addison-Wesley Series in Mathematics) 4.41 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot 3.45 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Essential John Nash
The Essential John Nash 3.92 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician 3.92 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Analytic Art
The Analytic Art 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid
Greek Mathematical Works, Volume I: Thales to Euclid 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Treatise on Light
Treatise on Light 3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Book of My Life
The Book of My Life 3.63 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Arithmetica
Arithmetica 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Astadhyayi of Panini: In Roman Transliteration (Texas Linguistics Series)
Astadhyayi of Panini: In Roman Transliteration (Texas Linguistics Series) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Osservazioni su Diofanto
Osservazioni su Diofanto 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Briefwechsel zwischen Karl Weierstrass und Sofja Kowalewskaja
Briefwechsel zwischen Karl Weierstrass und Sofja Kowalewskaja 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lectures on Number Theory (History of Mathematics Source Series)
Lectures on Number Theory (History of Mathematics Source Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Gesammelte Abhandlungen - Collected Papers
Gesammelte Abhandlungen - Collected Papers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Lectures on the Geometry of Numbers
Lectures on the Geometry of Numbers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton
The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King
Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King
by: Archytas
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3 (Two Volume Set) (Studies of the Warburg Institute)
The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3 (Two Volume Set) (Studies of the Warburg Institute) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Space And Time
Space And Time 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Selected Works
Selected Works 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Theory of Linear Operations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Theory of Linear Operations (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Oeuvres Completes de Niels Henrik Abel: Nouvelle Edition: Nouvelle Ă©dition: Volume 1
Oeuvres Completes de Niels Henrik Abel: Nouvelle Edition: Nouvelle Ă©dition: Volume 1 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Oeuvres Completes de Niels Henrik Abel: Nouvelle Edition: Nouvelle Ă©dition: Volume 2
Oeuvres Completes de Niels Henrik Abel: Nouvelle Edition: Nouvelle Ă©dition: Volume 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Mathematician Sophus Lie
The Mathematician Sophus Lie
by: R. Daly
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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C. G. J. Jacobi's Gesammelte Werke: Herausgegeben auf Veranlassung der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)
C. G. J. Jacobi's Gesammelte Werke: Herausgegeben auf Veranlassung der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration: From the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration: From the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cours d'analyse de l'École Royale Polytechnique (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)
Cours d'analyse de l'École Royale Polytechnique (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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An Elementary Treatise On Elliptic Functions
An Elementary Treatise On Elliptic Functions 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Âryabhatüya: A Manual of Astronomy, With the Commentary Bhatadüpikñ of Paramñdüçvara
The Âryabhatüya: A Manual of Astronomy, With the Commentary Bhatadüpikñ of Paramñdüçvara 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Sur la fonction exponentielle
Sur la fonction exponentielle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Six Keys of Eudoxus
The Six Keys of Eudoxus
by: Eudoxus
3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Theory of Spinors (Dover Books on Mathematics)
The Theory of Spinors (Dover Books on Mathematics) 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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LECTURES ON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
LECTURES ON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Basic Geometry
Basic Geometry 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Bd. Mathematische Abhandlungen
Bd. Mathematische Abhandlungen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Joseph Liouville 1809–1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 15)
Joseph Liouville 1809–1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 15) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mathematische Abhandlungen: Besonders Aus Dem Gebiete Der H Heren Arithmetik Und Der Elliptischen Funktionen
Mathematische Abhandlungen: Besonders Aus Dem Gebiete Der H Heren Arithmetik Und Der Elliptischen Funktionen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Over De avonden van Gerard Kornelis van het Reve
Over De avonden van Gerard Kornelis van het Reve 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Set Theory
Set Theory 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Der Mathematiker Jakob Steiner Von Utzenstorf: Ein Lebensbild Und Zugleich Eine WĂŒrdigung Seiner Leistungen (Classic Reprint)
Der Mathematiker Jakob Steiner Von Utzenstorf: Ein Lebensbild Und Zugleich Eine WĂŒrdigung Seiner Leistungen (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cours d'analyse de l'ecole polytechnique: Volume 1, Calcul différentiel (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)
Cours d'analyse de l'ecole polytechnique: Volume 1, Calcul diffĂ©rentiel (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hermann Graßmann: Biography
Hermann Graßmann: Biography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Collected Papers I
Collected Papers I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Gaspard Monge
Gaspard Monge 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Intuitionnisme et théorie de la démonstration
Intuitionnisme et thĂ©orie de la dĂ©monstration 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Liu Hui. Nueve capĂ­tulos de la matemĂĄtica china
Liu Hui. Nueve capítulos de la matemática china liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lehrbuch der Anwendung der Mechanik auf Maschinen, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Lehrbuch der Anwendung der Mechanik auf Maschinen, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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ZusÀtze Zu Den Neuesten Reisebeschreibungen Von Italien, Volume 1
ZusĂ€tze Zu Den Neuesten Reisebeschreibungen Von Italien, Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Elements of Geometry And Trigonometry
Elements of Geometry And Trigonometry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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TOPICS IN POLYNOMIALS OF ONE AND SEVERAL VARIABLES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS: VOLUME DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF P L CHEBYSHEV (1821 - 1894)
TOPICS IN POLYNOMIALS OF ONE AND SEVERAL VARIABLES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS: VOLUME DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF P L CHEBYSHEV (1821 - 1894) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings