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The following books covered on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ are early mathematical works whose interest is mainly historical.
For a comprehensive list of books referenced on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ (and more), see Books.
- c. 1650 BCE: Ahmes: Rhind Papyrus
- c. 300 BCE: Euclid: The Elements
- c. 260 BCE: Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon (Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης)
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: On the Quadrature of the Parabola
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: Measurement of a Circle
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: The Method
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder (2 books)
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: On Conoids and Spheroids
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: On Spirals
- c. 250 BCE: Archimedes: The Sand-Reckoner
- c. 230 BCE: Apollonius of Perga: Conics
- c. 200 BCE: Apollonius of Perga: De Locis Planis (Τόποι ἐπίπεδοι: "Plane Loci")
- c. 100 BCE: Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic
- c. 100: Anonymous: Chiu Chang Suann Jing
- c. 110: Menelaus of Alexandria: Sphaerica
- c. 150: Claudius Ptolemy: Almagest
- c. 150: Claudius Ptolemy: Apotelesmatika
- c. 250: Diophantus of Alexandria: Arithmetica
- 263: Liu Hui: Haidao Suanjing
- c. 280 - 473: Sun Tzu: Sun Tzu Suan Ching (孙子算经: "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic")
- c. 340: Pappus of Alexandria: Collection
- 1st Millennium: Anonymous: Bakhshali Manuscript
- 458: Sarvanandin: Lokavibhaga
- c. 466 -- c. 485: Zhang Qiujian: Zhang Qiujian Suanjing ("Zhang Qiujian's Mathematical Manual")
- 499: Aryabhata the Elder: Aryabhatiya
- c. 575: Varahamihira: Pancha-Siddhantika
- c. 600: Bhaskara I: Mahabhaskariya
- 628: Brahmagupta: Brahmasphutasiddhanta ("The Opening of the Universe" or "The Revised System of Brahma")
- 665: Brahmagupta: Khandakhadyaka
- c. 800: Alcuin of York: Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes
- 825: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi: Al-jam' w'al-tafriq ib hisab al-hind
- c. 830: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi: Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala
- 830: Al-Kindi: Ketab fi Isti'mal al-'Adad al-Hindi ("On the Use of the Indian Numerals")
- c. 850: Mahaviracharya: Ganita Sara Samgraha
- c. 880: Thabit ibn Qurra: Book on the Determination of Amicable Numbers
- c. 900: Abu Kamil: Kitāb al-ṭarā'if fi'l-ḥisāb (Book of Rare Things in the Art of Calculation)
- c. 900: Abu Kamil: Kitāb al-ṭair (Book of Birds)
- c. 1050: Chia Hsien: Huangdi Jiuzhang Suanjing Xicao ("The Yellow Emperor's detailed solutions to the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art")
- c. 1075: Omar Khayyam: On the Proofs of the Problems of Algebra and Muqabala
- c. 1150: Bhaskara II Acharya: Lilavati ("The Beautiful")
- c. 1150: Bhaskara II Acharya: Bijaganita ("Seed Arithmetic")
- c. 1150: Bhaskara II Acharya: Siddhanta Shiromani (or Siddhantasiromani)
- c. 1250: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: Kitāb al-Shakl al-Qattā ("Treatise on the Quadrilateral")
- 1261: Yang Hui: Xiangjie Jiuzhang Suanfa ("Arithmetic in Nine Sections")
- c. 1275: Yang Hui: Xugu Zhaiqi Suanfa
- 1478: Anonymous: Treviso Arithmetic