It's an interesting comparison to be sure, but I'm not sure Street-Fighting Math has a lot to offer graduate-level pure math texts (the subject of that post).

It's an interesting comparison to be sure, but I'm not sure Street-Fighting Math has a lot to offer graduate-level pure math texts (the subject of that post). I own and love the book, and did a lot of pure math in my math undergrad degree. But SFM is closer to the tradition of Martin Gardner's long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American than real higher pure math education. I think that's because it hinges on giving you tools to "hack" problems in physics, geometry and calculus that leverage intuition about quantities and space. There are branches of pure math where this matters a lot, but frankly it's not going to help you learn about Lie groups or category theory. It's not clear to me that the style and approach of SFM is helpful in this kind of very abstract context where a detailed understanding of unfamiliar sorts of concepts and mechanics is crucial.