📚 Mathematics

Proof, pattern and the unreasonable usefulness of abstraction, from Euclid to the mathematics of the everyday.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mathematics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Heinemann Mathematics	Scottish Primary Mathematics Group	1983	252
	Elements	Euclid	1482	175
	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	Sir Isaac Newton	1687	104
	A Course of Pure Mathematics	G. H. Hardy	1908	68
	Mathematics	McGraw-Hill	1998	66
	Eureka Math - a Story of Units	Great Minds	2014	58
	Introductory Mathematical Analysis	Ernest F. Haeussler	1973	55
	Addison-Wesley Mathematics	Robert E. Eicholz	1985	54
	Mathematics in Action - G.C.S.E.and Scottish Standard Grade (Mathematics in Action)	Mathematics in Action Group	1986	52
	Calculus	Howard Anton	1980	51
	Mathematics for the million	Lancelot Thomas Hogben	1936	48
	Spectrum Maths	Dave Kirkby	1989	44
	MathScape	McGraw-Hill	1997	43
	Thinking Mathematically	Robert Blitzer	1999	43
	What is mathematics?	Richard Courant	1941	42
	Mathematics and plausible reasoning	George Pólya	1954	39
	How to solve it	George Pólya	1945	38
	Mathematics for elementary teachers	Gary L. Musser	1988	38
	What If?	Randall Munroe	1980	37
	A mathematician's apology	G. H. Hardy	1940	36
	Intermediate algebra	Charles P. McKeague	1979	33
	Access to Math	Globe Fearon	1808	30
	Calculus Made Easy	Silvanus Phillips Thompson	1914	30
	Mathematics and the Imagination	Edward Kasner	1940	29
	How to Lie with Statistics	Darrell Huff	1954	29
	Calculus	James Stewart	1986	29
	Elementary Statistics	Robert Russell Johnson	1973	28
	Precalculus With Limits	Ron Larson	1993	22
	Principia mathematica	Alfred North Whitehead	1910	20
	Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications	Kenneth H. Rosen	1988	20

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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