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What a conspicuous absence of Russian books! To mention only a tiny handful: - Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov, Alexandrov, et al

What a conspicuous absence of Russian books! To mention only a tiny handful: - Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov, Alexandrov, et al - Shafarevich's Basic Notions of Algebra - Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics Another favorite (though German, not Russian) is Brieskorn and Knörrer's Plane Algebraic Curves.

acangiano 16y ago
Thank you for your feedback, psykotic. In our defense, the submission form was open to everyone. We simply published the entries we received. We may do a follow up post that incorporates other suggestions, if we receive enough of them.
- psykotic 16y ago
  Oh, it wasn't a complaint so much as an expression of genuine surprise that these wonderful books aren't more widely known.
  - acangiano 16y ago
    We can make them a bit more popular. ;-) Would you be interested in guest blogging an entry about foreign or specifically Russian math books?
sb 16y ago
"Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning", seconded! I bought it a couple of years ago when I first read about it on HN and have to say that it is a highly readable account of mathematics.