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Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

mathematician, computer scientist

  • Swarthmore College, Rutgers University

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Nested scrolls
Year's Best SF 14
Infinity and the mind
The Fourth Dimension
Freeware
Seek!
Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)
Frek and the elixir
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
The hacker and the ants
Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors #7)
Mathenauts
Mad Professor
Realware
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Gnarl!
Mind Tools
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Postsingular
Artificial life lab
Wastelands 2
Mathematicians in Love
White light
Wetware
Mondo 2000
As Above, So Below
Jim and the Flims
The Sex Sphere
Spaceland
Semiotext(e) SF
Master of space and time
All the visions ; Space baltic
Saucer wisdom
The secret of life
The ware tetralogy
Software engineering and computer games
The hollow earth
Spacetime Donuts
Hylozoic
Transreal!
Million Mile Road Trip
Transreal Cyberpunk
The Big Aha
57th Franz Kafka
Totem Poles
Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory
Hollow Earth & Return to The Hollow Earth
Return to the Hollow Earth
Loco: A Tor.Com Original
Live robots
Superlative Light
The UFO Show
Good Night, Moon: A Tor.Com Original
Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth
Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel
Where the Lost Things Are
Notes for Juicy Ghosts
Complete Stories (Volume 1)
Complete Stories (Volume 2)
Wikiworld and Other Stories
Notes for The Big Aha
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom
Heath Math Level 1 Student Text
Billy's Picture Book
Heath Math Level 3 Student Txt
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
Juicy Ghosts
Heath Math Level K Student Text
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986)

anthropologist, politician, egyptologist, nuclear physicist, historian, linguist, chemist, philosopher, biologist, theorist, astronomer, sociologist, engineer

  • Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV

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Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop et la signification de son oeuvre
The cultural unity of Negro Africa
L' antiquité africaine par l'image =
Towards the African Renaissance
L' Afrique noire pré-coloniale
Nouvelles recherches sur l'égyptien ancien et les langues négro-africaines modernes
African origin of civilisation
Nations négres et culture
Les Fondements économiques et culturels d'un état fédéral d'Afrique noire
Civilisation ou barbarie
Alerte sous les tropiques
Le Laboratoire de radiocarbone de l'IFAN
Black Africa - the economic and cultural basis for a federated state
Cheikh Anta Diop
Physique nucléaire et chronoglogie absolue
Les fondements culturels techniques et industriels d'un futur état fédéral d'Afrique noire
Parenté génétique de l'égyptien pharaonique et des langues négro-africaines
The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script
Le Bogolan
Parenté génétique de l'égyptien pharaonique et des langues négro-africaines
L'épopée du Kajoor
Philosophie, science, religion
Antériorité des civilisations nègres
Egypte ancienne et Afrique noire
Mitin̳
Sciences et philosophie
Articles
Lexique scientifique bilingue
Civilization or barbarism An Authentic Anthropolgy
Nations nègres et culture
Philosophie, science, religion
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay (1843-1899)

politician, sociologist, military engineer, historian, engineer, musician, military personnel

  • Colégio Pedro II, Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras

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Amor ao Brasil
Dous artistas maximos
Augusto Leverger
O Visconde do Rio Branco
Memórias
Memórias
Homens e cousas do imperio
Visconde de Beaurepaire Rohan
Innocencia pelo visconde de Taunay
La retraite de Laguna
Ierecê a Guaná
Campanha do Paraguay
Céos e terras do Brazil
Uma grande gloria brasileira, José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)
O visconde do Rio Branco, gloria do Brasil e da humanidade [por] Visconde de Taunay
Céos e terras do Brazil
Homens e cousas do Império [pelo] Visconde de Taunay
Viagens de outr'ora
Innôcencia
Innocencia
Innocencia
Entre os nossos indios
Diário do exército, 1869-1870
Inocencia,
O grande imperador
Brasileiros e estrangeiros
O Encilhamento
Inocência
La retraite de Laguna
Céus e terras do Brasil
História administrativa e econômica do Brasil
Innocencia pelo visconde de Taunay
A retirada da Laguna
A cidade do ouro e das ruinas
Uma grande gloria brasileira
O encilhamento
Ouro sobre azul
Memórias do visconde de Taunay
No declinio
Retraite de Laguna
Inocência (Edição Ilustrada)
A retirada da Laguna
Pedro II
Diario do exército
O encilhamento
Innocencia
Cartas da campanha
A mocidade de Trajano
Campanha de Matto Grosso
José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, 1767-1830
Diário do exército, 1869-1870
Na Bahia de Dom João VI
A cidade do ouro e das ruinas
Recordações de guerra e de viagem
Amelia Smith
Litteratura e philologia
Reminiscencias
Inocência
Goyaz
Visconde de Taunay
Memórias
Ouro sôbre azul
Paisagens brasileiras
O encilhamento
Ao entardecer
Dous artistas máximos
Historias brazileiras
A retirada da Laguna
Manuscripto de uma mulher
A retirada de Laguna
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Reflections
Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
Alice in puzzle-land
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707)

architect, military engineer

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Les oisivetés de Monsieur de Vauban ou Ramas de plusieurs mémoires de sa façon sur différents sujets
Vauban, 1633-1707
De l'attaque et de la defense des places
A Manual of Siegecraft and Fortification
Un militaire très civil
Oeuvres de M. de Vauban ..
Le triomphe de la méthode
Mémoire
Vauban
The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, ... Together with a new treatise of geometry. The third edition. Carefully revised and corrected by the original. To which is now added, A treatise of military orders, ... By W. Allingham, ... The whole work illustrated with 32 copper plates
A project for a royal tythe: or, general tax; which, ... will furnish the government a fixt and certain revenue, ... without oppressing the subjects. By the famous Monsieur Vauban, ..
[De l'attaque et de la défense des places]
La Dîme royale
Deutsch-redender Vauban, oder, Vollkommene Unterweisung alle Plätz, sie seyen regular oder irregular, auff die allerneuste Art und Weiss nach der heutigen Fortifications-Kunst zu befestigen
The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer General of France
The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban ..
The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, ... Together with a new treatise of geometry. The sixth edition, carefully revised and corrected by the original. To which are now added, a treatise of military orders, ..
Mémoire pour le rappel des Huguenots
Projet d'une dixme royale
The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, engineer-general of France. Together with a new treatise of geometry. The fifth edition, carefully revised and corrected by the original. ... The whole work illustrated with thirty-two copper plates
Lettres intimes (inédites) adressées au marquis de Puyzieulx (1699-1705)
Veritable maniere de bien fortifier de Mr. De Vauban
Lettres intimes (ine dites) adresse es au Marquis de Puyzieulx (1699-1705)
Projet d'une dixme royale. Suivi de deux écrits financiers
Ecrits divers sur l'économie
An essay for a general tax; or, A project for a royal tythe
Memoire pour servir d'instruction dans La conduite des sie ges et dans la de fense des places dresse par Monsieurle Mare chal de Vauban et pre sente au Roi Louis XIV en M.DCC.IV
Mémoires inédits du maréchal de Vauban sur Landau, Luxembourg, et divers sujets
Économistes financiers du XVIIIe siècle. Vauban, Projet d'une dîme royale ..
Oeuvres militaires du Maréchal Vauban
The method of fortification
Traité de la défense des places
Mémoire du maréchal de Vauban sur les fortifications de Cherbourg <1686>
La correspondance de Vauban relative au Canada
La correspondence de Vauban relative au Canada
La correspondance de Vauban relative au Canada. Documents présentés par Louise Dechêne
Fenn-i lağım
De l'attaque et de la defense des places
An essay for a general tax; or, A project for a royal tithe ...
Traitté des siéges et de l'attaque des places ; Traitté de la deffense des places
Fenn-i harp
Mémoire pour le rappel des Huguenots
Dime royale
Projet d'une dixme royale qui supprimant la taille ... et tous autres impôts onereux ... produiroit au roy un revenu certain et suffisant
Fenn-i muhasara
Projet d'une dixme royale qui supprimant la taille ... et tous autres impôts onereux ... produiroit au roy un revenu certain et suffisant
Récits Dieppois
Denkschrift zur Rückholung der Hugenotten
Projet d'une dixme royale
A project for a royal tythe or general tax
Vauban et ses successeurs en Franche-Comté
La dime royale
Lettres intimes (inédites) adressées au marquis de Puyzieulx (1699-1705) Introd. et notes de Hyrvoix de Landosle
Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki (1761-1814)

anthropologist, historian, engineer, archaeologist

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Voyages
Voyage dans l'empire du Maroc fait en l'année 1791
The new Decameron
Voyage en Turquie et en Égypte
Histoire primitive des peuples de la Russie
Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript
Die Handschrift von Saragossa
Œuvres
Voyage dans les steps [sic] d'Astrakhan et du Caucase
Parady
Voyage en Turquie et en Egypte
Ecrits politiques
Voyage Dans Quelques Parties de la Basse-Saxe Pour la Recherche des Antiquités Slaves Ou Vendes
Oeuvres. III, Théâtre ; Histoire ; Chronologie ; Écrits politiques
Au Caucase et en Chine, 1797-1806
Parades
Oeuvres. I, Voyage en Turquie et en Égypte, Voyage en Hollande, Voyage dans l'Empire de Maroc, suivi du Voyage de Hafez, Voyage dans quelques parties de la Basse-Saxe
Oeuvres. II, Voyage à Astrakan et sur la ligne de Caucase ; Mémoire sur l'ambassade en Chine ; Objets de recherche ; Sophio-polis
Principes de chronologie pour les temps antérieurs aux olympiades
Chronologie des deux premiers livres de Manéthon
Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Hafiz'in Yolculugu
Jean Potocki (Euvres III: Theatre, Historie, Chronologie, Ecrits politiques (La Republique Des Lettres (Louvain, Belgium)) (La Republique Des Lettres (Louvain, Belgium))
Manuscript Found in Zaragoza
Parades and Proverbs
Dynasties du second livre de Manéthon
The Saragossa manuscript, a collection of weird tales
Manuskript Gefunden in Zaragoza
Zaragoza'da Bulunmus El Yazmasi
Avadoro
Uvres (Republique Des Lettres (Louvain, Belgium), 10.)
Drevni͡a︡i︡a︡ istorīi͡a︡ Volynskoĭ gubernīi, sluzhashchai͡a︡ prodolzhenīem pervobytnoĭ Istorīi narodov Gosudarstva Rossīĭskago
Jacques Bergier
Jacques Bergier (1912-1978)

journalist, chemical engineer, ufologist, translator, spy, chemist, literary critic, French resistance fighter, opinion journalist

  • Science Faculty of Paris

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Je ne suis pas une légende
Entretiens avec Jacques Bergier, le dernier des magiciens
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
L' espionnage scientifique
Extraterrestrial intervention: the evidence
Visa pour une autre terre
La grande conspiration russo-américaine
Los extraterrestres en la historia
Secret doors of the earth
Extraterrestrial visitations from prehistoric times to the present
Retorno de Los Brujos
The morning of the magicians
Secret armies
O plasma, quarto estado da matéria
La Guerre secrète du pétrole
Les empires de la chimie moderne
Les frontieres du possible
Extraterrestrial Visitations From Prehistoric Times to the Present
Les Chefs-d'oeuvre du rire
Rire avec les savants
Admirations
Morning of the Magicians
La troisième guerre mondiale est commencée
Agents secrets contre armes secrètes
L'énergie H.
Visa pour demain
Le Matin Des Magiciens (French Edition)
Tình báo khoa học
L'Espionnage industriel
Le livre de l'inexplicable
Le Livre des anciens astronautes
L'espionnage stratégique
Le Livre du mystère
Vous êtes paranormal
Encyclopédie des sciences et des techniques
The Morning of the Magicians
L'espionnage politique
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817)

politician, businessperson, engineer, inventor

  • Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford

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Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq
Richard Lovell Edgeworth, a selection from his memoirs
Essay on Irish bulls
Essays on professional education
Readings on poetry
A letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Charlemont on the tellograph and on the defence of Ireland
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Essai sur la construction des routes et des voitures traduit de l'anglais sur la 2. éd. par M. Ballyet et augmenté d'une notice sur le système MacAdam
Poetry explained for the use of young people
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (A Selection From His Memoirs)
Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself and concluded by his daughter Maria Edgeworth
A letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Charlemont
An essay on the construction of roads and carriages
Essay on Irish bulls / by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir
The substance of three speeches
On Irish Vespidæ
The cherry orchard
Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Marie Edgeworth
The Book of bulls