I often use the internet to find resources for learning new mathematics and due to an explosion in online activity, there is always plenty to find. Many of these turn out to be somewhat unreadable because of writing quality, organization or presentation.


I recently found out that "The Elements of Statistical Learning' by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman was available free online: <http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/> . It is a really well written book at a high technical level. Moreover, this is the second edition which means the book has already gone through quite a few levels of editing.


I was quite amazed to see a resource like this available free online.


Now, my question is, are there more resources like this? Are there free mathematics books that have it all: well-written, well-illustrated, properly typeset and so on?


Now, on the one hand, I have been saying 'book' but I am sure that good mathematical writing online is not limited to just books. On the other hand, I definitely don't mean the typical journal article. It's hard to come up with good criteria on this score, but I am talking about writing that is reasonably lengthy, addresses several topics and whose purpose is essentially pedagogical.


If so, I'd love to hear about them. Please suggest just one resource per comment so we can vote them up and provide a link!



Free, high quality mathematical writing online?
[John Baez's stuff](http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/) is a fantastic resource for learning about - well, whatever John Baez is interested in, but fortunately that's a lot of interesting stuff. Scroll down for a link to TWF as well as his expository articles.


