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First published: c. 300 BC
3 volumes · All thirteen books in three volumes, with Heath's commentary.
THE ORIGINAL geometry/trigonometry books, with commentary from a historian of mathematics exploring the development of geometric thought across civilizations.
Primary SourceHidden Gem
First published: 1908
The book that taught Britain rigorous analysis: real numbers, limits, series and functions, in Hardy's clear prose.
Textbook
First published: 1748
2 volumes · Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum (1748), translated by John D. Blanton.
Euler builds functions, series, e and the exponential from scratch. The birth of modern analysis, still readable.
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First published: 1968
5 volumes · Knuth's life work; volumes 1–4B so far.
Mathematical preliminaries, MIX, information structures: lists, trees and memory.
Landmark Work
First published: 1893
2 volumes · Part I is the classic school course; Part II is analytical trigonometry.
Trigonometry done properly, with thousands of graded problems used to train for math olympiads and India's hardest engineering entrance exam. Still the best way to master it.
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First published: 1895
Lines, circles and conics, with thousands of graded problems used to train for math olympiads and India's hardest engineering entrance exam.
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First published: 1887
Inequalities, series, permutations and continued fractions. The problems olympiad students still use.
Textbook
First published: 1886
2 volumes
A deep, rigorous school algebra far beyond modern syllabuses.
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First published: 1848
The great Victorian treatise on conics and projective methods.
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First published: 1902
Special functions and complex analysis. The reference physicists and mathematicians have used for a century.
Landmark Work
First published: 1941
A tour of real mathematics, from numbers and geometry to topology and calculus, for anyone curious.
General Reader
First published: 1892
Givental translation
The Russian school geometry for 60 years, rigorous and elegant.
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First published: 1993
From Gelfand's correspondence school: algebra taught by a great mathematician to teenagers.
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First published: 1966
A short, brilliant booklet on reading and sketching graphs.
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First published: 1966
Coordinates in the plane, space and four dimensions, for school students.
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First published: 1960
Mir Publishers, 2 volumes; year is the first English edition
The Mir calculus course used by generations of engineers and physicists.
Textbook
First published: 1969
Mir Publishers; year is the first English edition
Thousands of calculus and analysis problems. The Soviet drill book.
Problem Book
First published: 1954
Silverman translation (Dover)
Metric spaces, measure and functional analysis from Kolmogorov himself.
Textbook
First published: 1971
Differential equations seen geometrically, with phase portraits and flows instead of recipes.
Textbook
First published: 1974
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics through symplectic geometry.
Textbook
First published: 1971
Dover; year is the first English edition
Determinants to Jordan form, compact and careful.
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First published: 1981
2 volumes
A modern, physics-friendly analysis course from Moscow State University.
Textbook
First published: 1986
Huge collection of olympiad-style geometry problems with solutions.
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