Damn! You beat me to mentioning Harold Edwards' book, as it perfectly fits the description. The first three chapters are intuition and concept building, the nex

Damn! You beat me to mentioning Harold Edwards' book, as it perfectly fits the description. The first three chapters are intuition and concept building, the next three chapters revisit the topics with more rigor and proofs, and then there are follow-on applications chapters with all sorts of nuggets. It is virtually mistake free and can be opened up and read at any point and still be understood, a stated goal of the author.