My last math class I ever took was plane trigonometry in college. Our professor was Russian, a genius, and a total jerk. He hated that he had to teach us lowly

My last math class I ever took was plane trigonometry in college. Our professor was Russian, a genius, and a total jerk. He hated that he had to teach us lowly morons. He told us, on many occasions, that we were "stupid Americans", that "Russian children [were] smarter than [us]", and that he would "give us below an F if [he] could." Really managed to ruin what little interest I had left in math. I can appreciate a book that gets right to the meat of the matter. But for my personal relationship with math, I need something that wraps everything up in a warm fuzzy blanket first. Major props to the author for not wanting to inflate page count with crap, though.