>Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college. If you have never read any of the Soviet era Scienc

>Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college. If you have never read any of the Soviet era Science books, you absolutely should get hold of some and go through them. They were succinct and to the point with the density of information being quite high. By comparison, most modern text books are so verbose and sometimes dumbed down that it becomes quite a chore to sift the wheat from the chaff. Dover publications has some good ones starting with Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et.al. There is also the I.M.Gelfand series; Functions and Graphs, The Method of Coordinates, Algebra, Trigonometry etc.