Out of copyright mathematics books
This is a list of mathematics books whose copyrights have expired and can be found on sites like the Internet Archive (archive.org) or Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org).
See the bottom of the page for explanatory notes and links to other sites with more lists and information.
Contents
Books
The books are ordered by author surname. Where there are two or more authors, the first one on the book's cover or front material is used.
Baker, Arthur Latham - Elliptic Functions: An Elementary Text-Book for Students of Mathematics (1890)
Level: undergraduate
Topics: Elliptic functions
19th century tract on elliptic functions, converted to Latex.
Barnard, Samuel; Child, James Mark - Higher Algebra (1936)
Level: undergraduate
Topics: Number theory, Analysis, Theory of equations
Barnard, Samuel; Child, James Mark - Advanced Algebra (1939)
Level: undergraduate
Boole, George - The mathematical analysis of logic : being an essay towards a calculus of deductive reasoning [1] (1847)
Topics: Logic
Burnside, William - Theory of groups of finite order [1] (1897)
Topics: Group theory
Cajori, Florian - A History of Mathematics [1] (1893)
Topics: History
Cajori, Florian - An Introduction To The Modern Theory Of Equations
Topics: Theory of equations, Galois theory
Carmichael, Robert Daniel - The Theory of Numbers (1914)
Topics: Number theory
Carmichael, Robert Daniel - Diophantine Analysis (1915)
Level: graduate
Topics: Number theory
Monograph on number theory.
Coolidge, Julian Lowell - A treatise on the circle and the sphere (1916)
Topics: Geometry, Differential geometry
Coolidge, Julian Lowell - The Elements Of Non Euclidean Geometry (1909)
Topics: Geometry, Differential geometry
De Morgan, Augustus - Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and Integral Calculus (1899)
Topics: Calculus, Differentiation, Integration
De Morgan, Augustus - On the study and difficulties of mathematics
Level: introductory
Topics: Algebra
Dedekind, Richard - Essays on the Theory of Numbers by Richard Dedekind
Level: monograph
Topics: Number theory
Dickson, Leonard Eugene - History of the theory of numbers
Topics: History, Number theory
Dickson, Leonard Eugene - First Course in the Theory of Equations (1922)
Topics: Theory of equations
Solutions of cubic, quartic polynomials, etc.
Edwards, Joseph - An elementary treatise on the differential calculus, with applications and numerous examples (1896)
Level: university
Topics: Calculus, Differentiation
Differentiation with emphasis on Cambridge Tripos problems
Edwards, Joseph - A treatise on the integral calculus : with applications, examples and problems - volume II (1922)
Topics: Calculus, Integration
Edwards, Joseph - A treatise on the integral calculus : with applications, examples and problems - volume I (1922)
Topics: Calculus, Integration
A thousand pages of integration.
Elliott, Edwin Bailey - An introduction to the algebra of quantics (1913)
"Quantic" is an older name for "homogeneous polynomial" or "form", as in "quadratic form", a polynomial in more than one variable, such as $x^2+y^2$, where the exponents are all equal.
Goursat, Edouard - Derivatives and Differentials (1904)
Topics: Calculus, Differentiation, Differential geometry
Hall, Henry Sinclair; Knight, Samuel Ratcliffe - Higher algebra [1] (1889)
Topics: Algebra
Various topics in algebra which are possibly no longer mainstream parts of the university curriculum. A solutions manual is available by the same authors.
Hall, Henry Sinclair; Knight, Samuel Ratcliffe - Solutions of the examples in Higher algebra [1]
Solutions to Higher Algebra by the same authors.
Hardy, Godfrey Harold - The Integration of Functions of a Single Variable
Level: monograph
Topics: Integration
Tract on integration, including theorems of integrability in terms of elementary functions, elliptic integrals, etc.
Hardy, Godfrey Harold - A course of pure mathematics (1921)
Topics: Analysis
Hart, William - Intermediate algebra for colleges (1948)
Level: secondary
Hathaway, Arthur S. - A Primer of Quaternions (1896)
Topics: Quaternions
Jones, Samuel Isaac - Mathematical Wrinkles (1913)
Topics: Recreational mathematics
Jordan, Camille - Cours d'analyse de l'école polytechnique (1882)
Topics: Analysis
Kaye, George Rusby - Indian mathematics (1915)
Topics: History
Historical treatise on ancient Indian mathematical knowledge.
Keynes, John Maynard - A Treatise on Probability (1921)
Topics: Probability
Klein, Felix - Lectures on Mathematics (1894)
Lagrange, Joseph Louis - Lectures on Elementary Mathematics (1901)
Topics: Number theory, Algebra
MacMahon, Percy Alexander - Combinatory analysis
Topics: Combinatorics
Does not contain "analysis" in the modern sense.
Marks, Constance - Mathematical questions and solutions (1901)
Topics: Recreational mathematics
Recreational mathematics from a 19th century magazine. Includes entries by G. H. Hardy.
McDougall, Alexander Hiram - High school geometry (1920)
Level: secondary
Topics: Geometry
Moritz, Robert E. - A Text Book On Spherical Trigonometry (1913)
Topics: Spherical trigonometry
Nunn, T. Percy - Exercises in algebra (1924)
Level: secondary
Practice for university entrance exams.
Page, James Morris - Ordinary differential equations, with an introduction to Lie's theory of the group of one parameter [1] (1897)
Topics: Ordinary differential equations, Differential equations
Russell, Bertrand; Whitehead, Alfred North - Principia Mathematica Volume III (1913)
Saks - Theory of the integral (1937)
Topics: Lebesgue integration, Measure theory
Smith, J. Hamblin - Riders in Euclid (1910)
Topics: Geometry, Synthetic geometry
Supplementary exercises for Euclid's geometry books.
Todhunter, Isaac - A treatise on the differential calculus, with numerous examples
Topics: Calculus, Differentiation
Todhunter, Isaac - An Elementary Treatise On Laplace's Functions, Lame's Functions, And Bessel's Functions (1875)
The scan at archive.org is extremely poor quality.
Todhunter, Isaac - Spherical Trigonometry (1886)
Topics: Spherical trigonometry
Townsend, Edgar Jerome - Functions Of A Complex Variable (1915)
Topics: Complex analysis
University of Cambridge - Papers set in the mathematical tripos : in the University of Cambridge, 1913-1917 (1919)
Veblen, Oswald; Young, John Wesley - Projective geometry volume 1 (1910)
Topics: Projective geometry, Geometry
Veblen, Oswald; Young, John Wesley - Projective geometry volume II (1918)
Topics: Projective geometry, Geometry
Venn, John - The logic of chance
Topics: Probability
Webster, Arthur Gordon - Dynamics of particles and rigid bodies
Topics: Mechanics
Wentworth, George Albert - Plane Geometry (1899)
Level: secondary
Topics: Geometry, Euclidean geometry
White, William Frank - A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays
Topics: Recreational mathematics
Whitehead, Alfred North - The axioms of projective geometry (1906)
Topics: Geometry
Whitehead, Alfred North - An Introduction to Mathematics
Level: secondary
Whitworth - Choice and chance
Topics: Probability
Woods, Frederick; Bailey, Frederick - A course in mathematics, for students in engineering and applied science, volume II (1909)
Topics
- Algebra: 13 22 33
- Analysis: 2 25 29
- Calculus: 12 17 18 19 21 43
- Combinatorics: 34
- Complex analysis: 46
- Differential equations: 39
- Differential geometry: 10 11 21
- Differentiation: 12 17 21 43
- Elliptic functions: 1
- Euclidean geometry: 52
- Galois theory: 7
- Geometry: 10 11 36 42 48 49 52 54
- Group theory: 5
- History: 6 15 30
- Integration: 12 18 19 24
- Lebesgue integration: 41
- Logic: 4
- Measure theory: 41
- Mechanics: 51
- Number theory: 2 8 9 14 15 33
- Ordinary differential equations: 39
- Probability: 31 50 56
- Projective geometry: 48 49
- Quaternions: 27
- Recreational mathematics: 28 35 53
- Spherical trigonometry: 37 45
- Synthetic geometry: 42
- Theory of equations: 2 7 16
Authors
- Bailey, Frederick 57
- Baker, Arthur Latham 1
- Barnard, Samuel 2 3
- Boole, George 4
- Burnside, William 5
- Cajori, Florian 6 7
- Carmichael, Robert Daniel 8 9
- Child, James Mark 2 3
- Coolidge, Julian Lowell 10 11
- De Morgan, Augustus 12 13
- Dedekind, Richard 14
- Dickson, Leonard Eugene 15 16
- Edwards, Joseph 17 18 19
- Elliott, Edwin Bailey 20
- Goursat, Edouard 21
- Hall, Henry Sinclair 22 23
- Hardy, Godfrey Harold 24 25
- Hart, William 26
- Hathaway, Arthur S. 27
- Jones, Samuel Isaac 28
- Jordan, Camille 29
- Kaye, George Rusby 30
- Keynes, John Maynard 31
- Klein, Felix 32
- Knight, Samuel Ratcliffe 22 23
- Lagrange, Joseph Louis 33
- MacMahon, Percy Alexander 34
- Marks, Constance 35
- McDougall, Alexander Hiram 36
- Moritz, Robert E. 37
- Nunn, T. Percy 38
- Page, James Morris 39
- Russell, Bertrand 40
- Saks 41
- Smith, J. Hamblin 42
- Todhunter, Isaac 43 44 45
- Townsend, Edgar Jerome 46
- University of Cambridge 47
- Veblen, Oswald 48 49
- Venn, John 50
- Webster, Arthur Gordon 51
- Wentworth, George Albert 52
- White, William Frank 53
- Whitehead, Alfred North 40 54 55
- Whitworth 56
- Woods, Frederick 57
- Young, John Wesley 48 49
Notes
Year of publication
The year of each publication is the year of the edition rather than the printing.
Ordering of results
The books are ordered by the author's surname. Where more than one different copy of the book could be located, the multiple links are numbered [1], [2], etc.
Classes of books which are omitted
I have mostly omitted books on these topics:
- Business mathematics
- "Mathematics for the practical man"
- Texts on teaching of mathematics
- Journals
- Theses
- Tables, such as trigonometric or logarithm tables
- Very introductory books
- Collections of papers
- Mathematics for physics/engineering
Data download
You may download the original file which contains some more information here. This is formatted in my Table::Readable format.
Some of the books have been inputted by various different institutions, so there may be other copies, scanned in a different manner, at the sites.
Web links
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Free Public Domain Ebooks
A list of books like this one, made by one of the members of Project Gutenberg (Thank you for your hard work!)
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Project Gutenberg Books in Mathematics
There are various other books here not mentioned above.
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Cornell University Library Digital Math Monographs
A digital collection of historical math monographs. This was the source used by at least some of the Project Gutenberg maths books and also archive.org. However, it restricts access to some of the material which is visible on archive.org.
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Hathi Trust Digital Library
Contains digitized books from multiple academic libraries.
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The University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
Various out-of-copyright monographs. It's not very easy to navigate.