Do any of you read old math/physics books? Anything pre 20th century?

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>>9063213
I've read in my uni's library:

A treatise on electricity and magnetism (2 vols)
by James Clark Maxwell. (originally written in 1873)

The Maxwell from the famous Maxwell equations of Electromagnetism.

I'm a College Student majoring in Electrical Engineering.

So I've read these books in my library. Just for curiosity & get an insight.

>>9063231
Heaviside is better.

I've read Diophantes' Arithmetica. It's a fairly good effort on the notation compared to the rest of his era.

>>9063213
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Gauss

A lot of Euler papers ("proofs" of Pentagonal number theorem, Basel problem, etc.)

Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum by Jacobi

John Wallis' infinite product for pi

>>9063509
All of this while I was still in high school, btw.

I was in freshman geometry and hated depending on the calculator for trig functions.

I learned Taylor series and Hypergeometric series then I was hooked.