Library Guides: Mathematics: Books

Open Education Textbooks

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OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials.
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OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials including Open Stax, the Internet Archive and HathiTrust.
OpenStax
Offers college math textbooks in many subject areas. Also offers tests, homework assignments and presentation slides.
American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks
peer-reviewed textbooks with exercises and solutions available in pdf format.
Open Textbook Library
Books have been peer reviewed by faculty from colleges and universities.

AMS Books Online
A collection of AMS books freely available online; can be browsed by author or subject.
Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs
Full-text images of 576 classic mathematics books; can be browsed by author or title.
EMIS -- Electronic Library of Mathematics
This online collection from EMIS includes journals, monographs, and other electronic resources that are freely available.
GDZ, Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
Digital collection of 18th and 19th century German mathematics books and journals.
Geometry and Topology Monographs
ICM Proceedings
Digital archive of ICM Conferences, 1893-2014.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Full text of most volumes in this series.
Links to Mathematics Books Online
AMS site that provides links to research-level mathematics books online.

NUMDAM: Numerisation de documents anciens mathematiques This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of French mathematics titles. Includes full text of many of French mathematical "Seminaires".

The Online Books Page
An extensive list of freely available online books. List can be browsed by author, title, and subject; can be searched by author and title.
Online Mathematics Textbooks
A list of mathematics textbooks freely available online.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Allows full-text searching of Springer-Verlag electronic resources, including several thousand electronic books in a wide variety of subjects. Includes most books published from 2005 and titles in book series from 1997.
Allows full-text searching of Springer-Verlag electronic resources, including several thousand electronic books in a wide variety of subjects. Includes most books published from 2005 and titles in book series from 1997. This database includes books, book chapters, and journal articles; search results can be limited by type of resource, author, subject, language, and publication date.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digital repository of books from major research libraries. Full access available to books in the public domain
HathiTrust is a shared digital repository created by major research libraries. It offers searching of the full text of books and full access to works in the public domain
UChicago users may login to download high quality PDF versions where available.
University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of digitized books from the University's mathematics collection; all books were published in the 19th or early 20th century. The collection can be searched or browsed.

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