Heinrich Weber, Lehrbuch der Algebra I-III - complete German source transcription (working draft)

Start here: the first file is a single 1,464-page reader containing the complete German source transcription of all three volumes of Weber's Lehrbuch der Algebra, with a bookmark tree. The three volumes follow individually, then the buildable LaTeX for each.

What this is. A page-by-page transcription from the printed volumes (Bands I-II: Braunschweig 1895-1896; Band III: second edition, 1908). Volume I pages 1-148 come from an earlier hand-verified pass; the remaining material was transcribed by an agent swarm and checked for page identity, boundary duplication, OCR-layer coverage, and LaTeX compilation. All three German volumes compile.

Editorial status. Band I is a substantially corrected historical witness. Its complete on-disk Fable audit queue is terminal: 667 findings, comprising 574 confirmed fixes, 43 refutations, 12 policy no-ops, and 38 genuine source errors preserved and explicitly noted. Band II has received a targeted, scan-authoritative audit of 45 high-confidence loci in 33 fragments. Band III has received a targeted, scan-authoritative audit consisting of 46 sealed repair rows plus one source-matching layout supplement across exactly 61 leaves. These are not claims of fresh line-by-line recollation. Explicit uncertainty markers remain wherever a reading still requires consultation of the scan.

Source defects, recorded rather than silently repaired. The Band II scan lacks printed pages 318-319 and 732-733, recovered here from a second scan of the same volume, and photographs two gatherings twice. The Band III scan photographs printed 384-393 twice, and one leaf between printed 708 and 711 is absent from the only available scan and could not be recovered.

Band-III milestone (2026-08-10). This version comments eight active running heads as page furniture, restores eleven printed rules, repairs the two whole-heading founts on sections 128 and 129, and implements 23 syntax-decisive continuation decisions: 41 marker insertions at 21 boundaries plus two false outgoing-marker removals. Table I is recut onto its correct two leaves and its analytic variable is restored by 56 Latin-v corrections while all 50 genuine Greek-nu tokens are retained. One source-matching three-line display repair removes a real clipped equation without changing its mathematics.

The frozen-baseline delta is exactly 61 leaves: 28 early plus 33 late, with no overlap, missing expected changes, or unexpected drift; the other 689 Band-III leaves remain byte-identical. The collector passes 750/750 with zero failures and all 86 explicit uncertainty markers retained. Canonical Band III is 559 pages; changed leaves, affected boundaries, both inherited warning pages, Table I, volume transitions, and final pages were rendered and inspected clean.

Band-II status retained. Its exact terminal scope is 33 fragments / 45 loci. The canonical collector passes 806/806 with zero failures, and the volume's changed leaves and relevant boundaries passed rendered QA.

Band-I status retained. Every substantive Fable finding present for Band I was replayed against the scan and either integrated or given an explicit terminal disposition. Repairs include lost sign tables and closing display rows, a page-320/321 displacement, corrected part-title/blank leaves, removal of fabricated text and page furniture, source-faithful numbering and letterspacing, and explicit preservation of genuine printed errors.

Two fount-wide rulings remain implemented in the preamble: inclined Greek capitals and the open-tailed lower-case rho.

The English facing edition is not included: it covers Band I only, and 27 tail fragments remain untranslated. Its audit findings are adjudicated, but the English reader will be published only when the translation is complete.