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

Authors

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:

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.


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