The other day while reading about the growing discontent with the price of subscriptions and remembering the similar problem with the price of student text the

The other day while reading about the growing discontent with the price of subscriptions and remembering the similar problem with the price of student text the only thing I could think about was that few of today's texts are better than the classic mathematical texts. I've a small shelf of books published by Chelsea with names on them like Hilbert, Abel, Gauss and others who pretty much established the base line of modern mathematics. That Project Gutenberg is on course to provide the same books and more is some of the best news I've heard as a solution to the problem. The only down side I can think of is that these books have a fairly steep learning curve since they depend on a much better previous education than we do today. That however is a fixable problem as well. This is good news indeed! Here is the link: http://www.ams.org/bookstore/chelsealist http://www.ams.org/bookstore/chelsealist EDIT: added URL and expanded name list.