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Albert Tarantola, who passed away in 2009, had made a number of his books freely available from his webpage, including Elements of Physics and his classic Inverse Problem Theory.

Petr Krysl has released under the GPL his SOFEA Matlab-oriented OO toolkit for finite element analysis. There is a nice book that goes with this too.

Jon Claerbout has all or parts of several of his geophysics books available electronically. Venture west to Stanford University.

This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics by John Baez, is one of the very best things on the WWW. Baez also has lots of other interesting works available from his website. His tutorial on general relativity is superb.

Jim Berryman of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has written Lecture Notes on Nonlinear Inversion and Tomography, which you can download here.

The Free Software Foundation maintains lists of freely accessible books on various topics. Hundreds of non-technical books including many of the great works of literature online from Project Gutenberg.