📚 Number Systems

Bases and representations: binary, Roman, positional Indian-Arabic — the machinery behind every count.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject number systems 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
	Misteaks... and How to Find Them Before the Teacher Does...	Barry Cipra	1982	14
	Numerical methods for engineers	M.G.M. Smith	1990	11
	Realm of numbers	Isaac Asimov	1959	10
	Analyse mathématique et calcul numérique pour les sciences et les techniques	Robert Dautray	1985	10
	Take a number	Jeanne Bendick	1961	7
	Numerical linear approximation in C	Nabih N. Abdelmalek	2008	7
	Number stories of long ago	David Eugene Smith	1919	6
	Robust computational techniques for boundary layers	Paul Farrell	2000	6
	Numerik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler	Wolfgang Dahmen	2006	6
	Using R for Numerical Analysis in Science and Engineering	Victor A. Bloomfield	2014	6
	Generalized Barycentric Coordinates in Computer Graphics and Computational Mechanics	Kai Hormann	2017	6
	Computer Algebra	Edmund A. Lamagna	2018	6
	Mathematica Primer for Physicists	Jim Napolitano	2018	6
	Numerical Primer for the Chemical Engineer, Second Edition	Edwin Zondervan	2019	6
	Mathematics at the Meridian	Raymond Flood	2019	6
	Multivariable Calculus with Mathematica	Robert P. Gilbert	2020	6
	Frontiers in interpolation and approximation	N. K. Govil	2006	5
	Numerical techniques for direct and large-eddy simulations	Xi Jiang	2008	5
	Computation with Linear Algebraic Groups	Willem Adriaan de Graaf	2017	5
	Iterative Methods and Their Dynamics with Applications	Ioannis Konstantinos Argyros	2017	5
	MATLAB Handbook with Applications to Mathematics, Science, Engineering, and Finance	Jose Miguel David Baez-Lopez	2019	5
	Degenerate differential equations in Banach spaces	A. Favini	1998	4
	Applications of Fibonacci numbers	International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and Their Applications (7th 1996 Technische Universität Graz)	1998	4
	Think of a Number	Johnny Ball	2005	4
	The story of numbers	Patricia Lauber	1961	3
	How Did We Find Out About Numbers	Isaac Asimov	1973	3
	Numerical boundary value ODEs	R. D. Russell	1985	3
	Perturbation methods for engineers and scientists	Alan W. Bush	1992	3
	Algebraic systems of equations and computational complexity theory	Tse-kʻo Wang	1994	3
	Numbers	David Stienecker	1995	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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