📚 Mathematical Physics

Books with mathematical physics on their catalogue record, first published between 1922 and 2013, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mathematical physics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,539 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Chaos	James Gleick	1987	37
	Physics	Eugene Hecht	1994	30
	The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking	1998	28
	Using and understanding mathematics	Jeffrey O. Bennett	1998	19
	The Road to Reality	Roger Penrose	2004	18
	Mathematical methods for physicists	George B. Arfken	1966	17
	Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik	Joos, Georg	1932	16
	Horizons in World Physics	Albert Reimer	2012	15
	Methods of theoretical physics	Philip McCord Morse	1946	14
	E=mc2	David Bodanis	2000	13
	Methoden der mathematischen Physik	Richard Courant	1924	11
	The mathematics of physics and chemistry	Henry Margenau	1943	11
	Two-dimensional fields in electrical engineering	Loyal Vivian Bewley	1948	10
	Mathematical methods in physics	J. S. R. Chisholm	1964	10
	Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences	Mary L. Boas	1966	10
	Die mathematischen Hilfsmittel des Physikers	Erwin Madelung	1922	9
	Mathematical methods for physics and engineering	K. F. Riley	1997	9
	Advanced engineering mathematics	Erwin Kreyszig	1999	9
	Uravnenii︠a︡ matematicheskoĭ fiziki	A. N. Tikhonov	1951	8
	Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists	Russell L. Herman	2013	8
	Love and Math	Edward Frenkel	2013	8
	Fundamental formulas of physics	Donald Howard Menzel	1955	7
	Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik	Siegfried Flügge	1961	7
	Essential relativity	Wolfgang Rindler	1969	7
	Matrices and tensors in physics	A. W. Joshi	1975	7
	Applied analysis	Cornelius Lanczos	1956	6
	Teoreticheskai︠a︡ fizika	Alexander Solomonovich Kompaneyets	1961	6
	Group theory and its application to physical problems	Morton Hamermesh	1962	6
	My Life as a Quant	Emanuel Derman	2004	6
	Physical Mathematics	Kevin Cahill	2013	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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