Suggest an Antique Math Book worth reading?

Solution 1:

Of course the obvious choice will be "A Course of Modern Analysis" by Whittaker and Watson, Cambridge 1902. Some say it is this the BOOK (the only one) on real analysis.

You can find old copy of this book easily. I have an edition of the 40's and it looks great.

I have not seen the new edition but they say is done by photographing the old one and does not look good. The old one is amazing. It's difficult to know how they did all that in 1902 without latex. Some of the exercises of the book are ancient problems from Cambridge exams.

Solution 2:

Many old books can be found in pdf form online for free. I got Hardy's A Course in Pure Mathematics from here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29

Just scrolling through the authors is good in itself