I cannot adequately express how awesome having access to this information is to me. When I was younger I would read one biography from http://www.gap-system.org

I cannot adequately express how awesome having access to this information is to me. When I was younger I would read one biography from http://www.gap-system.org/~history/ http://www.gap-system.org/~history/ before going to bed. It is nothing short of amazing to be able to get a projection, a snapshot of the workings of the great minds of centuries past. To see them struggle and then brilliantly succeed in explaining concepts that were at the edge of knowledge, that are still non-trivial and have their work remain timeless by continuing to stand head and shoulders above modern treatments of the same subject is remarkable. I did a search on a bunch of people - Hamilton, Euler, George Green, Bernoulli, Euler, Gauss, Clifford, Boole and more. As is to be expected not every one is there. The most interesting essays my short search found were: A Mathematical Theory of Magnetism by William Thomson http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/141/243.full.pdf+html?sid=fe65c826-aad8-409c-89d5-cd8378f605c6 http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/141/243.full.... and An Essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances by Thomas Bayes. http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/53/370.full.pdf+html?sid=5a73db2e-6635-4240-a252-e54cc481c83f http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/53/370.full.p...