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Amusements in Mathematics
Dudeney, Henry Ernest
6,048 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Newton, Isaac
4,645 Gutenberg downloadsla2009
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
Poincaré, Henri
3,920 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
On Growth and Form
Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth
3,320 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
1001 задача для умственного счета
Rachinskii, Sergei Aleksandrovich
2,704 Gutenberg downloadsru2005
The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems
Dudeney, Henry Ernest
2,579 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 50 (College)
The Way To Geometry
Ramus, Petrus
2,291 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 70 (Academic)
The Game of Logic
Carroll, Lewis
2,102 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 39 (High School)
The Fibonacci Number Series
Husted, Michael
1,957 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
Smith, David Eugene & Karpinski, Louis Charles
1,943 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Of the Just Shaping of Letters
Dürer, Albrecht
1,940 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 38 (High School)
The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics
Venn, John
1,875 Gutenberg downloadsen2018Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study
Waters, W. G. (William George)
1,790 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Logarithm" to "Lord Advocate" Volume 16, Slice 8
Various
1,587 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 61 (Academic)
The Teaching of Geometry
Smith, David Eugene
1,569 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II
De Morgan, Augustus
1,556 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
Dee, John
1,493 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 62 (Academic)
周髀算經
Unknown
1,330 Gutenberg downloadszh2004
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Equation" to "Ethics" Volume 9, Slice 7
Various
1,297 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 63 (Academic)
Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book
Unknown
1,286 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 65 (Academic)
The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.
Scott, John
1,281 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 46 (College)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" Volume 12, Slice 6
Various
1,276 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de
1,270 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 63 (Academic)
An essay on the foundations of geometry
Russell, Bertrand
1,199 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 58 (Graduate)
A Tangled Tale
Carroll, Lewis
1,155 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 40 (High School)
Über die Geometrie der alten Aegypter. Vortrag, gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 29. Mai 1884.
Weyr, Emil
1,153 Gutenberg downloadsde2008
Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik Eine logische mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl
Frege, Gottlob
1,147 Gutenberg downloadsde2015
The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development
Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
1,129 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
Archimedes
Heath, Thomas Little, Sir
1,127 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
1,117 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 78 (Expert)
Pascal
Tulloch, John
1,062 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
The philosophy of mathematics
Comte, Auguste
1,013 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 75 (Expert)
An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry
Lehmer, Derrick Norman
1,003 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 50 (College)
The Psychology of Arithmetic
Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
1,002 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 1 of 2) : $b To which are added, A history of the restoration of Platonic theology, by the latter Platonists: And a translation from the Greek of Proclus's Theological elements
Proclus
972 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 63 (Academic)
A List of Factorial Math Constants
Unknown
969 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 49 (College)
The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
961 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
The Number "e"
Unknown
952 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, I. Band Von den Anfängen bis zum Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften
Dannemann, Friedrich
944 Gutenberg downloadsde2016
German Science Reader An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering
Kroeh, Charles Frederick
944 Gutenberg downloadsde2007
The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827
Various
920 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Pi
Hemphill, Scott
890 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The calculating engine
Babbage, Charles
885 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 71 (Expert)
Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
Unknown
880 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Elements of arithmetic
De Morgan, Augustus
877 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 45 (College)
The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels
Phin, John
875 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 63 (Academic)
The Earliest Arithmetics in English
Unknown
856 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 52 (Graduate)
On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
Cajori, Florian
849 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne
Slowinski, David
838 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The Second Story of Meno A Continuation of Socrates' Dialogue with Meno in Which the Boy Proves Root 2 is Irrational
Unknown
838 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)
夢溪筆談, Volume 07-10
Shen, Kuo
808 Gutenberg downloadszh2005
William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
Cajori, Florian
806 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Airy, George Biddell
805 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
On a Dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the motion of a system of invariable form about a fixed point, with some suggestions as to the Earth's motion
Maxwell, James Clerk
803 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, II. Band Von Galilei bis zur Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts
Dannemann, Friedrich
792 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
Our Calendar The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Packer, George Nichols
791 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 58 (Graduate)
The slide rule : $b a practical manual
Pickworth, Charles N. (Charles Newton)
786 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry" Volume 11, Slice 6
Various
768 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
A Review of Algebra
Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry
755 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 42 (College)
海島算經
Liu, Hui, active 3rd century-4th century
752 Gutenberg downloadszh2008
Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants
Unknown
750 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Marks' first lessons in geometry In two parts. Objectively presented, and designed for the use of primary classes in grammar schools, academies, etc.
Marks, Bernhard
731 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 39 (High School)
孫子算經
Sunzi, approximately 5th century
731 Gutenberg downloadszh2007
Mathématiques et Mathématiciens: Pensées et Curiosités
Unknown
716 Gutenberg downloadsfr2013
The First 100,000 Prime Numbers
Unknown
701 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
Lebon, Ernest
684 Gutenberg downloadsfr2010
Instruction for Using a Slide Rule
Stanley, W.
678 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 38 (High School)
The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie
Record, Robert
671 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 62 (Academic)
A Possible Solution of the Number Series on Pages 51 to 58 of the Dresden Codex
Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen)
667 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 51 (Graduate)
Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte
Simon, Max
653 Gutenberg downloadsde2020
Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen
Klein, Felix
653 Gutenberg downloadsde2011
The Elements of Perspective arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid
Ruskin, John
652 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
The Academic Gregories
Stewart, Agnes Grainger
639 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
630 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]
Fee, Greg
620 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Ueber Riemann's Theorie der Algebraischen Functionen
Klein, Felix
610 Gutenberg downloadsde2007
Four-Dimensional Vistas
Bragdon, Claude Fayette
609 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 63 (Academic)
L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793
Bertrand, Joseph
604 Gutenberg downloadsfr2016
How to become a lightning calculator
Anonymous
600 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 43 (College)
The number "e"
Nemiroff, Robert J. & Bonnell, Jerry T.
600 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The golden mean
Bonnell, Jerry T. & Nemiroff, Robert J.
594 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect
Weaver, Lawrence
578 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 52 (Graduate)
Die hauptsächlichsten Theorien der Geometrie
Loria, Gino
558 Gutenberg downloadsde2010
Grundzüge der Perspektive nebst Anwendungen
Doehlemann, Karl
555 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
First notions of logic (preparatory to the study of geometry)
De Morgan, Augustus
532 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
The Value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 places
Unknown
529 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
On the theory of the infinite in modern thought : $b Two introductory studies
Jourdain, Eleanor F. (Eleanor Frances)
514 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 64 (Academic)
Gauss, ein Umriss seines Lebens und Wirkens
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor
513 Gutenberg downloadsde2013
The Golden Mean or Ratio[(1+sqrt(5))/2] To 20,000 places
Unknown
506 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Campanalogia : $b or The art of ringing improved : with plain and easie rules to guide the practitioner in the ringing all kinds of changes, to which is added, great variety of new peals.
Stedman, Fabian
496 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
Gaston Darboux: Biographie, Bibliographie analytique des écrits
Lebon, Ernest
496 Gutenberg downloadsfr2013
The Divining Rod: Virgula Divina—Baculus Divinatorius (Water-Witching)
Latimer, Charles
495 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 47 (College)
The First 498 Bernoulli Numbers
Unknown
478 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
La géométrie en vers techniques
Roys, Lyon Des
473 Gutenberg downloadsfr2008
The description and use of the globes and the orrery To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system
Harris, Joseph
472 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 54 (Graduate)
The First 1000 Euler Numbers
Unknown
472 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Catalan's Constant to 1,500,000 Places
Unknown
471 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Paul Appell: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
Lebon, Ernest
471 Gutenberg downloadsfr2011
Histoire des nombres et de la numération mécanique
Jacomy-Régnier
456 Gutenberg downloadsfr2009
Meetkundig Schoolboek
Sluijters, Hendrik
439 Gutenberg downloadsnl2004
The First 1001 Fibonacci Numbers
Unknown
439 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
D'Alembert
Bertrand, Joseph
434 Gutenberg downloadsfr2005
Niels Henrik Abel
Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustaf
426 Gutenberg downloadsfr2005
Mathematische Geographie für Lehrerbildungsanstalten
Eggert, Erwin
418 Gutenberg downloadsde2020
Die Thurmuhr: eine Rechen-Fibel für kleine Kinder
Normann, F. G.
394 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten Projektionen
Rothe, Rudolf
380 Gutenberg downloadsde2018
Leibniz: Zu seinem zweihunderjährigen Todestag 14. November 1916
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
379 Gutenberg downloadsde2019
The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1892
Various
379 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, and a method of finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of
378 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes
Archimedes
334 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 67 (Academic)

Amusements in Mathematics

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method

On Growth and Form

1001 задача для умственного счета

The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems

The Way To Geometry

The Game of Logic

The Fibonacci Number Series

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals

Of the Just Shaping of Letters

The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics

Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Logarithm" to "Lord Advocate" Volume 16, Slice 8

The Teaching of Geometry

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara

周髀算經

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Equation" to "Ethics" Volume 9, Slice 7

Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book

The puzzle king : $b Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" Volume 12, Slice 6

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

An essay on the foundations of geometry

A Tangled Tale

Über die Geometrie der alten Aegypter. Vortrag, gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 29. Mai 1884.

Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik Eine logische mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl

The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development

Archimedes

The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space

Pascal

The philosophy of mathematics

An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry

The Psychology of Arithmetic

The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 1 of 2) : $b To which are added, A history of the restoration of Platonic theology, by the latter Platonists: And a translation from the Greek of Proclus's Theological elements

A List of Factorial Math Constants

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.

The Number "e"

Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, I. Band Von den Anfängen bis zum Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften

German Science Reader An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering

The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827

Pi

The calculating engine

Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age

Elements of arithmetic

The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels

The Earliest Arithmetics in English

On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century

The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne

The Second Story of Meno A Continuation of Socrates' Dialogue with Meno in Which the Boy Proves Root 2 is Irrational

夢溪筆談, Volume 07-10

William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

On a Dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the motion of a system of invariable form about a fixed point, with some suggestions as to the Earth's motion

Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, II. Band Von Galilei bis zur Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts

The slide rule : $b a practical manual

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry" Volume 11, Slice 6

A Review of Algebra

海島算經

Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants

Marks' first lessons in geometry In two parts. Objectively presented, and designed for the use of primary classes in grammar schools, academies, etc.

孫子算經

Mathématiques et Mathématiciens: Pensées et Curiosités

The First 100,000 Prime Numbers

Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits

Instruction for Using a Slide Rule

The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie

A Possible Solution of the Number Series on Pages 51 to 58 of the Dresden Codex

Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte

Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen

The Elements of Perspective arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid

The Academic Gregories

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]

Ueber Riemann's Theorie der Algebraischen Functionen

Four-Dimensional Vistas

L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793

How to become a lightning calculator

The number "e"

The golden mean