Mathematician's delight
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Read on Hacker News…om that thread: http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-0-306-45036-5 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Short-Introduction-Timothy... I agree with the recommendation of An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning in this thread. Another participant has already recommended my favorite for background reading, Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart. http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Modern-Mathematics-Ian-Stewar... Get that right away. Sawyer's A Mathematician's Delight is surely also good (I've read other books by Sawyer). http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486462404/ Read those for background as you get my favorite overviews of mathematics: Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang and Numbers and Geometry by Joseph Stillwell. http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Mathematics-Serge-Lang/dp/038796... (Basic Mathematics is mostly high school level math, wit…
Read on Hacker News… same approach to start again from ground zero. I found Polya to be good, but a Mathematician's Delight is better and more accessible: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0486462404?ie=UTF8&ta...
Read on Hacker NewsA snapshot of my bookshelf's "math" section, which really hasn't changed much since I was in high school and hadn't taken calculus: W.W. Sawyer, What is Calculus About? and Mathematician's Delight Courant and Robbins, What is Mathematics? Hogben, Mathematics for the Million Steinhaus, Mathematical Snapshots Ivars Peterson, The Mathematical Tourist Davis and Hersh, The Mathematical Experience Polya, How to Solve It Huff, How to Lie With Statistics McGervey, Probabilities in Everyday Life Raymond Smullyan: The Lady or the Tiger , Alice in Puzzle-Land , others Anything by Martin Gardner. I happen to have picked up Mathematical Magic Show and Mathematical Circus , but I'm sure there are many other collections. I also recommend cryptography stuff. David Kahn's The Codebreakers is not really a math book, but it is awesome and it stars mathemati…
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