Paul Dirac, Quantum Mechanics (1930)
Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1902–09 (1930)
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals (1977)
Linus Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939)
Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910–13, 3 vols.)
Cyril Smith, Search For Structure (1981)
John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944)
Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics (1948)
R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, Conservation of Orbital Symmetry (1970)
Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922)
Richard Feynman, QED (1985)
Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)
我估计以上的名单应该就是所谓20世纪12部最佳学术专著的来源了吧,其实原文中还列举了许多不错的书籍,对20世纪的学术发展做了多方面描述,比如Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)、James Watson, The Double Helix (1968) 的这样的传记书籍。Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa (1971) 、John S. Shelton, Geology Illustrated (1966) 这样的指引型书籍,甚至于Oxford English Dictionary (1933) 这样的字典也收集在文章中。