Top 10 Dover Books

The Top Ten

1 Linear Algebra (Shilov)

2 Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (Farlow)

3 Introduction to Analysis (Rosenlicht)

This book has some of the cleanest proofs I've seen.

4 Symmetry (McWeeny)

5 Ordinary Differential Equations (Tenenbaum)

6 A Book of Abstract Algebra (Pinter)

7 Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics (Tinkham)

8 Differential Geometry (Kreyszig)

9 Principles of Electrodynamics (Schwartz)

10 The Principles of Statistical Mechanics (Tolman)

The Contenders

11 Fluid Mechanics (Granger)

12 General Topology (Willard)

13 Theoretical Physics (Joos)

14 Introduction to Topology (Mendelson)

15 Theory of Relativity (Pauli)

16 Set Theory and Logic (Stoll)

17 Introductory Graph Theory (Chartrand)

18 Theoretical Nuclear Physics (Blatt)

19 Lie Algebras (Jacobson)

20 General Chemistry (Pauling)

21 Symmetry and Spectroscopy (Harris)

22 An Introduction to Information Theory (Pierce)

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