First impression from this list is that Russia has a lot of mathematicians! From the list, I have only read What is Mathematics? by Courant, which is a well-kn

First impression from this list is that Russia has a lot of mathematicians! From the list, I have only read What is Mathematics? by Courant, which is a well-known and excellent book. I’d add Princeton Companion to Mathematics as a more advanced version, and Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas as a more detailed alternative to What is Mathematics, to the list. Other titles on the list, such as those on probability or linear algebra, are perhaps less well-known.