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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II
De Morgan, Augustus
11,949 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
The Way To Geometry
Ramus, Petrus
8,911 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 70 (Academic)
The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems
Dudeney, Henry Ernest
4,437 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 50 (College)
Amusements in Mathematics
Dudeney, Henry Ernest
4,247 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)
1001 задача для умственного счета
Rachinskii, Sergei Aleksandrovich
3,589 Gutenberg downloadsru2005
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
Smith, David Eugene & Karpinski, Louis Charles
3,241 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Newton, Isaac
2,692 Gutenberg downloadsla2009
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)
2,528 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
On Growth and Form
Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth
2,208 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
Poincaré, Henri
1,669 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
German Science Reader An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering
Kroeh, Charles Frederick
1,470 Gutenberg downloadsde2007
The Game of Logic
Carroll, Lewis
1,326 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 39 (High School)
Of the Just Shaping of Letters
Dürer, Albrecht
1,311 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 38 (High School)
The Fibonacci Number Series
Husted, Michael
1,288 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
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
1,283 Gutenberg downloadsen2018Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" Volume 12, Slice 6
Various
1,133 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
An essay on the foundations of geometry
Russell, Bertrand
1,089 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 58 (Graduate)
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
Dee, John
1,016 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 62 (Academic)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Equation" to "Ethics" Volume 9, Slice 7
Various
996 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 63 (Academic)
Pascal
Tulloch, John
958 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
A Tangled Tale
Carroll, Lewis
952 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 40 (High School)
The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development
Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
940 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
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
928 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 46 (College)
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
920 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 63 (Academic)
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de
901 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 63 (Academic)
Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book
Unknown
889 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 65 (Academic)
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Airy, George Biddell
834 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Elements of arithmetic
De Morgan, Augustus
825 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 45 (College)
The Teaching of Geometry
Smith, David Eugene
798 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
Über die Geometrie der alten Aegypter. Vortrag, gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 29. Mai 1884.
Weyr, Emil
786 Gutenberg downloadsde2008
An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry
Lehmer, Derrick Norman
785 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 50 (College)
周髀算經
Unknown
756 Gutenberg downloadszh2004
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Logarithm" to "Lord Advocate" Volume 16, Slice 8
Various
753 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study
Waters, W. G. (William George)
747 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Archimedes
Heath, Thomas Little, Sir
733 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Geodesy" to "Geometry" Volume 11, Slice 6
Various
716 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
The Number "e"
Unknown
682 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Mathématiques et Mathématiciens: Pensées et Curiosités
Unknown
663 Gutenberg downloadsfr2013
A List of Factorial Math Constants
Unknown
660 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 49 (College)
The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne
Slowinski, David
658 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants
Unknown
657 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
625 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Four-Dimensional Vistas
Bragdon, Claude Fayette
624 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 63 (Academic)
Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, II. Band Von Galilei bis zur Mitte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts
Dannemann, Friedrich
622 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
Pi
Hemphill, Scott
622 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
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.
622 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 78 (Expert)
The Earliest Arithmetics in English
Unknown
620 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 52 (Graduate)
The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827
Various
608 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
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
607 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 61 (Academic)
Instruction for Using a Slide Rule
Stanley, W.
592 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 38 (High School)
William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
Cajori, Florian
588 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
Ueber Riemann's Theorie der Algebraischen Functionen
Klein, Felix
575 Gutenberg downloadsde2007
夢溪筆談, Volume 07-10
Shen, Kuo
567 Gutenberg downloadszh2005
The Psychology of Arithmetic
Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)
548 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 60 (Graduate)
The calculating engine
Babbage, Charles
538 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 71 (Expert)
Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik Eine logische mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl
Frege, Gottlob
531 Gutenberg downloadsde2015
孫子算經
Sunzi, approximately 5th century
525 Gutenberg downloadszh2007
Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte
Simon, Max
513 Gutenberg downloadsde2020
Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect
Weaver, Lawrence
513 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 52 (Graduate)
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
508 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 58 (Graduate)
A Review of Algebra
Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry
507 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 42 (College)
The First 100,000 Prime Numbers
Unknown
500 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The philosophy of mathematics
Comte, Auguste
497 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 75 (Expert)
The golden mean
Bonnell, Jerry T. & Nemiroff, Robert J.
493 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
The Academic Gregories
Stewart, Agnes Grainger
487 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 59 (Graduate)
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
481 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 39 (High School)
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
481 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 53 (Graduate)
Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]
Fee, Greg
473 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 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
468 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)
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
467 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 61 (Academic)
How to become a lightning calculator
Anonymous
461 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 43 (College)
On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
Cajori, Florian
455 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
The Golden Mean or Ratio[(1+sqrt(5))/2] To 20,000 places
Unknown
446 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
First notions of logic (preparatory to the study of geometry)
De Morgan, Augustus
445 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793
Bertrand, Joseph
433 Gutenberg downloadsfr2016
The slide rule : $b a practical manual
Pickworth, Charles N. (Charles Newton)
432 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Die hauptsächlichsten Theorien der Geometrie
Loria, Gino
430 Gutenberg downloadsde2010
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
429 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 63 (Academic)
The First 1001 Fibonacci Numbers
Unknown
425 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Meetkundig Schoolboek
Sluijters, Hendrik
414 Gutenberg downloadsnl2004
The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie
Record, Robert
414 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 62 (Academic)
Henri Poincaré: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
Lebon, Ernest
404 Gutenberg downloadsfr2010
The Value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 places
Unknown
404 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
A Possible Solution of the Number Series on Pages 51 to 58 of the Dresden Codex
Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen)
397 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 51 (Graduate)
The First 498 Bernoulli Numbers
Unknown
385 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Die Naturwissenschaften in ihrer Entwicklung und in ihrem Zusammenhange, I. Band Von den Anfängen bis zum Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaften
Dannemann, Friedrich
377 Gutenberg downloadsde2016
Niels Henrik Abel
Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustaf
372 Gutenberg downloadsfr2005
The number "e"
Nemiroff, Robert J. & Bonnell, Jerry T.
369 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
On the theory of the infinite in modern thought : $b Two introductory studies
Jourdain, Eleanor F. (Eleanor Frances)
362 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 64 (Academic)
Catalan's Constant to 1,500,000 Places
Unknown
360 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
La géométrie en vers techniques
Roys, Lyon Des
358 Gutenberg downloadsfr2008
Histoire des nombres et de la numération mécanique
Jacomy-Régnier
348 Gutenberg downloadsfr2009
Leibniz: Zu seinem zweihunderjährigen Todestag 14. November 1916
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
347 Gutenberg downloadsde2019
The Divining Rod: Virgula Divina—Baculus Divinatorius (Water-Witching)
Latimer, Charles
346 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 47 (College)
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
345 Gutenberg downloadsen2024Difficulty 56 (Graduate)
D'Alembert
Bertrand, Joseph
342 Gutenberg downloadsfr2005
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
341 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 54 (Graduate)
The First 1000 Euler Numbers
Unknown
335 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 100 (Quantum Electrodynamics)
Darstellende Geometrie des Geländes und verwandte Anwendungen der Methode der kotierten Projektionen
Rothe, Rudolf
334 Gutenberg downloadsde2018
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
324 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 61 (Academic)
The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1892
Various
322 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 55 (Graduate)
Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen
Klein, Felix
317 Gutenberg downloadsde2011
海島算經
Liu, Hui, active 3rd century-4th century
312 Gutenberg downloadszh2008
Die Thurmuhr: eine Rechen-Fibel für kleine Kinder
Normann, F. G.
308 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
Mathematische Geographie für Lehrerbildungsanstalten
Eggert, Erwin
305 Gutenberg downloadsde2020
Grundzüge der Perspektive nebst Anwendungen
Doehlemann, Karl
291 Gutenberg downloadsde2017
Gaston Darboux: Biographie, Bibliographie analytique des écrits
Lebon, Ernest
281 Gutenberg downloadsfr2013
Gauss, ein Umriss seines Lebens und Wirkens
Winnecke, Friedrich August Theodor
275 Gutenberg downloadsde2013
Paul Appell: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits
Lebon, Ernest
261 Gutenberg downloadsfr2011
Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes
Archimedes
235 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 67 (Academic)

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II

The Way To Geometry

The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems

Amusements in Mathematics

1001 задача для умственного счета

The Hindu-Arabic Numerals

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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.

On Growth and Form

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

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

The Game of Logic

Of the Just Shaping of Letters

The Fibonacci Number Series

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

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

An essay on the foundations of geometry

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara

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

Pascal

A Tangled Tale

The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development

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.

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 Philosophical Essay on Probabilities

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

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

Elements of arithmetic

The Teaching of Geometry

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

An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry

周髀算經

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

Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study

Archimedes

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

The Number "e"

Mathématiques et Mathématiciens: Pensées et Curiosités

A List of Factorial Math Constants

The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne

Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants

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

Four-Dimensional Vistas

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

Pi

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

The Earliest Arithmetics in English

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

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

Instruction for Using a Slide Rule

William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics

Ueber Riemann's Theorie der Algebraischen Functionen

夢溪筆談, Volume 07-10

The Psychology of Arithmetic

The calculating engine

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

孫子算經

Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker Kulturgeschichte

Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect

A Review of Algebra

The First 100,000 Prime Numbers

The philosophy of mathematics

The golden mean

The Academic Gregories

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

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

Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]

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

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

How to become a lightning calculator

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

The Golden Mean or Ratio[(1+sqrt(5))/2] To 20,000 places

First notions of logic (preparatory to the study of geometry)

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

The slide rule : $b a practical manual

Die hauptsächlichsten Theorien der Geometrie

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 First 1001 Fibonacci Numbers

Meetkundig Schoolboek

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