May I suggest that you prepare mentally to read all the recommended books in the next ten years or so. After you get into that mindset, pick one from the curat

May I suggest that you prepare mentally to read all the recommended books in the next ten years or so. After you get into that mindset, pick one from the curated list and stick with it. This will greatly enhance your experience with the book by reducing the anxiety that you might be reading the "wrong" book and missing out on the unicorn book out there, which you will read eventually. In my experience, having that mindset (all vs mutually exclusive) diminishes the importance we give to the choice of the book, because we'll read them all. When the choice becomes less important, we spend time actually reading books instead of deliberating on which books to read. My book recommendation include: - "A Course of Higher Mathematics" - V.I. Smirnov. - "Differential and Integral Calculus" - N. Piskunov. - "Problems in Mathematical Analysis" - Demidovich