📚 Topology

Geometry with the rulers put away: what stays true when you are allowed to stretch but never tear.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject topology 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
	Real Analysis	H. L. Royden	1963	20
	The Mathematical works of J. H. C. Whitehead	John Henry Constantine Whitehead	1962	19
	Elements of mathematics	Nicolas Bourbaki	1965	19
	The shape of space	Jeffrey R. Weeks	1985	15
	Introduction to geometry	H. S. M. Coxeter	1961	11
	Experiments in topology	Stephen Barr	1964	11
	Elements of the topology of plane sets of points	M. H. A. Newman	1939	10
	General topology	Wacław Sierpiński	1952	10
	Topology and Its Applications	William F. Basener	2006	10
	Topologische lineare Räume	Gottfried Köthe	1960	9
	Nepreryvnye gruppy	L. S. Pontri͡agin	1939	8
	Convergence and uniformity in topology	John Wilder Tukey	1940	8
	The topology of fibre bundles	Norman Earl Steenrod	1951	8
	Topologie algébrique et théorie des faisceaux	Roger Godement	1958	8
	Mathematical proofs	Gary Chartrand	2002	8
	Introduction à la topologie combinatoire	Maurice Fréchet	1946	7
	General topology	Kelley, John L.	1955	7
	Topological analysis	Gordon Thomas Whyburn	1958	7
	Riemann surfaces	Lars Valerian Ahlfors	1960	7
	Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds	Nikolai Saveliev	1999	7
	Topologie	Kazimierz Kuratowski	1933	6
	Topology	John G. Hocking	1961	6
	Topology	George McCarty	1967	6
	Elementary topology	Donald W. Blackett	1967	6
	Topology and Geometry	Glen E. Bredon	1993	6
	Fractals Everywhere	Michael F. Barnsley	1993	6
	Topology	Solomon Lefschetz	1930	5
	Analytic topology	Gordon Thomas Whyburn	1942	5
	Topology	E. M. Patterson	1956	5
	Topologie générale	Nicolas Bourbaki	1958	5

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

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