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There are some great books to build up some intuition and rigor in all branches of math, with no prior knowledge: * How to Prove It (Velleman) * Algebra; Trig
by nextos 13y ago
There are some great books to build up some intuition and rigor in all branches of math, with no prior knowledge:
* How to Prove It (Velleman)
* Algebra; Trigonometry; F&G; The Method of Coordinates (Gelfand)
* Geometry (Kiselev)
* Calculus Made Easy (Thompson)
* How to Count without Counting (Niven)
* Introduction to Probability Theory (Hoel)
* The Little Schemer (Friedman)
The proceed to more advanced texts like:
* Naive Set Theory (Halmos)
* Linear Algebra Done Right (Axler)
* Geometry Revisited (Coxeter)
* Infinitesimal Calculus (Keisler)
* Concrete Mathematics (Graham)
* Information Theory, Inference and Learning (MacKay)
* SICP (Abelson)
- tokenrove 13y agoAll of these are great. I'd like to add, maybe not for everyone, Calculus by Spivak. For me, it was the calculus book for which I had been looking for a long time.