📚 Algebra

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From word puzzles to abstract structure: the unknown made a variable, and everything that followed in the notation.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject algebra in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Linear algebra and its applications	David C. Lay	1994	61
College Algebra	Ron Larson	1900	54
Precalculus	Ron Larson	1900	51
Intermediate algebra	Charles P. McKeague	1979	33
Modern school mathematics	Mary P. Dolciani	1967	32
Physics	Eugene Hecht	1994	30
Algebra	McGraw-Hill	2000	29
Algebra	Richard N. Aufmann	1996	28
Intermediate algebra	Margaret L. Lial	1972	25
Linear Algebra with Applications	Gareth Williams	1984	23
Algebra & trigonometry	Michael Joseph Sullivan Jr.	1996	23
Contemporary Abstract Algebra	Joseph A. Gallian	1986	22
College algebra	Michael Joseph Sullivan Jr.	1987	22
Beginning algebra	Margaret L. Lial	1971	20
Intermediate algebra	K. Elayn Martin-Gay	1993	20
Beginning & Intermediate Algebra	K. Elayn Martin-Gay	2001	18
A first course in abstract algebra	John B. Fraleigh	1967	16
Elementary and Intermediate Algebra	Marvin L. Bittinger	1995	16
Algebra for the practical man	James Edgar Thompson	1931	13
Elementary algebra for college students	Allen R. Angel	1988	13
Elementary Algebra	Marvin L. Bittinger	1990	13
Painless Algebra (Painless)	Lynette Long	1998	13
Modern algebra	John R. Durbin	1978	12
College algebra	Jerome E. Kaufmann	1987	12
Fundamentals of algebra and trigonometry	Earl William Swokowski	1968	11
Advanced Mathematics	Richard G. Brown	1975	10
Beginning and intermediate algebra	R. David Gustafson	1995	10
College algebra	Robert Blitzer	1998	10
Higher algebra	Henry Sinclair Hall	1889	9
Algebra	Saunders Mac Lane	1967	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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