📚 Number Theory

The integers keep their own secrets: primes, congruences, and problems easy to state that are famous for resisting.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject number theory 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fermat's Last Theorem	Simon Singh	1997	33
	From zero to infinity	Constance Reid	1955	22
	Principia mathematica	Alfred North Whitehead	1910	20
	Disquistiones arithmeticae	Carl Friedrich Gauss	1801	17
	The general theory of Dirichlet's series	G. H. Hardy	1915	17
	Zero	Charles Seife	2000	16
	Elementary Number Theory and Its Applications	Kenneth H. Rosen	1922	15
	Grundlagen der Analysis	Edmund Landau	1930	15
	An introduction to the theory of numbers	G. H. Hardy	1938	15
	The music of the primes	Marcus du Sautoy	2003	14
	An introduction to the theory of numbers	Ivan Morton Niven	1960	13
	Figuring	Shakuntala Devi	1977	13
	Ramanujan's Notebooks	Bruce C. Berndt	1991	13
	Essays on the theory of numbers	Richard Dedekind	1901	11
	The Number System	H. A. Thurston	1956	11
	Numbers	Graham Flegg	1982	11
	Realm of numbers	Isaac Asimov	1959	10
	A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory	Kenneth F. Ireland	1982	10
	History of the theory of numbers	Leonard E. Dickson	1919	9
	Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie	Edmund Landau	1927	9
	Elementary number theory	David M. Burton	1976	9
	Asimov on Numbers	Isaac Asimov	1977	9
	The Great Mathematical Problems	Ian Stewart	2013	9
	Synthetische Zahlentheorie	Rudolf Fueter	1900	8
	The theory of numbers	Burton Wadsworth Jones	1955	8
	The last problem	Eric Temple Bell	1961	8
	Unsolved problems in number theory	Richard K. Guy	1981	8
	Number Theory	David V. Chudnovsky	1985	8
	e	Eli Maor	1994	8
	The book of numbers	John Horton Conway	1995	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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