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Another great book, starting with the basics and then exploring a wide range of mathematical subjects, is The Princeton Companion to Mathematics: http://press.

Another great book, starting with the basics and then exploring a wide range of mathematical subjects, is The Princeton Companion to Mathematics: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html It's fun to just flip it open and start reading.

incision 13y ago
Yes and it's conveniently available on Safari [0] if the sticker shock of the print edition is too much. Also, the editor Tim Gowers wrote Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction [1]. 0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/math/9781400830398 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/math/9781400830398 1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEP2T2/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEP2T2/
calvins 13y ago
This is a wonderful book. A word of caution though: don't get the Kindle version from Amazon. I thought I'd get it for the Kindle, because the print version is huge and I sometimes like to read in bed and don't want to lug the dead tree version I own around, but I had to return it because of the standard problems with garbled notation (some symbols appearing as a square box or some other incorrect symbol) that affects every math book I've ever purchased on Amazon for the Kindle. There error rate was much lower than in any other math book I've tried, but still much too high.
dsuth 13y ago
I clicked the link expecting to see this book. It's pretty impressive (and beautifully finished besides).
gtani 13y ago
Agreed, well worth the price. The most useful books i have are these 2 Math for Physics undergrads books that capsulize the first 2 years of calculus, linear algebra etc that all math, physics, EE students go thru http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-Methods-in-the-Physical-Sciences http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-... (older edition of Arfken et al http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Mathematical-Methods-for-Physicists-6ed-Elsevier-AP-s http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Math...

incision 13y ago

Yes and it's conveniently available on Safari [0] if the sticker shock of the print edition is too much. Also, the editor Tim Gowers wrote Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction [1]. 0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/math/9781400830398 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/math/9781400830398 1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEP2T2/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEP2T2/

calvins 13y ago

This is a wonderful book. A word of caution though: don't get the Kindle version from Amazon. I thought I'd get it for the Kindle, because the print version is huge and I sometimes like to read in bed and don't want to lug the dead tree version I own around, but I had to return it because of the standard problems with garbled notation (some symbols appearing as a square box or some other incorrect symbol) that affects every math book I've ever purchased on Amazon for the Kindle. There error rate was much lower than in any other math book I've tried, but still much too high.

dsuth 13y ago

I clicked the link expecting to see this book. It's pretty impressive (and beautifully finished besides).

gtani 13y ago

Agreed, well worth the price. The most useful books i have are these 2 Math for Physics undergrads books that capsulize the first 2 years of calculus, linear algebra etc that all math, physics, EE students go thru http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-Methods-in-the-Physical-Sciences http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-... (older edition of Arfken et al http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Mathematical-Methods-for-Physicists-6ed-Elsevier-AP-s http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Math...