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Great introductory books along with videos: - Mathematics and Its History (John Stillwell) - Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (Wil
by photon_lines 4y ago
Great introductory books along with videos:
- Mathematics and Its History (John Stillwell)
- Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (William Dunham)
- Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking (Roger B. Nelsen)
- The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities (William Dunham)
- Odds & Ends: Introducing Probability & Decision with a Visual Emphasis (Jonathan Weisberg)
- Introduction to Probability (Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang)
- The Secret Life of Equations: The 50 Greatest Equations and How They Work (Richard Cochrane)
- Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology (David S. Richeson)
- 3Blue1Brown Essence of Linear Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab
- 3Blue1Brown Differential Equations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVlfJuKtYTftqH6
- Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior (Ralph Abraham, Christopher Shaw)
- Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (Rudolf Rucker)
- 3Blue1Brown Essence of Calculus: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr
- Calculus for the Practical Man (J.E. Thompson)
- Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus (Harry M. Schey)
- Who Is Fourier? a Mathematical Adventure
- Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (John C. Baez, Mike Stay)
- An Illustrated Guide to Relativity (Tatsu Takeuchi)
- The Mathematics Of Quantum Mechanics (Martin Laforest)
- A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (Daniel Fleisch) or if you're also interested in a visual guide, I wrote one as well: https://github.com/photonlines/Intuitive-Guide-to-Maxwells-Equations
- Introduction to Elementary Particles (David J. Griffiths)
- An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality (Brendan Fong, David I Spivak)
- Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective (Terence Tao)