Let me guess...(You) "NEED" more??
>>25156348I'm actually pretty interested in the Calculus book, I've been looking to get into that kind of thing.Is understanding math actually worth it thoughIs polymath brain a desirable state
Récoltes et Semailles by Grothendieck. It’s probably the most profound thing ever written.
>>25156348I found Morris Kline annoying to read as a humanities fag
>>25156376Not an expert in mathematics or his algebraic geometry by any means, and I’m reading this in English, but I’m surprised at this lovely prose and also, his humble disposition, considering he’s arguably more of a genius than any philosopher to have ever lived.https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/slaoui/notes/recoltes_et_semailles.pdf
>>25156352>I'm actually pretty interested in the Calculus book, I've been looking to get into that kind of thing.>Is understanding math actually worth it thoughYes, but it may feel unmotivated if you didn't already do calculus or physics at highschool. A good, quick reviewof everything you must remember from school can be found in>Precalculus: Mathematics In A Nutshell, by George F. SimmonsThese are some sources of inspiration for the lack of motivation problem:>An Introduction to Mathematics - Alfred North Whitehead>Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Timothy Gowers>Everything and more: A compact history of ∞ - David Foster Wallace>Mathematics For Human Flourishing - Francis Su>A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy>What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods - Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart>Mathematics: It's Content, Method and Meaning - A. D. Aleksandrov et al.>A Mathematical Bridge: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics - Stephen Fletcher Hewson>The Main Stream of Mathematics - Edna Kramer.>The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics - Edna Kramer>Mathematics, Form and Function - Saunders Mac Lane>Mathematics: The Music of Reason - Jean A. Dieudonné>Mathematics and the Imagination - Edward Kasner & James Newman, with preface and review by Jorge Luis Borges>James R. Newman's The World of Mathematics>Timothy Gowers's Princeton Companion to Mathematics>The Mathematical Experience - Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto>Calculus: A Liberal Art (a.k.a. Historical Approach) - William McGowen Priestley>Alice in Numberland: A Students' Guide to the Enjoyment of Mathematics - John Baylis & Rod Haggarty>Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman>Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics - Howard Eves>Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery - Imre Lakatos>Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics – William Dunham>The Enjoyment of Mathematics - Hans Rademacher & Otto Toeplitz>Mathematics and Logic - Mark Kac, Stanislaw Ulam>The Pleasures of Counting - Thomas William Körner>Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) - Barry Mazur>The Education of T.C. MITS - Lilian Lieber, Barry Mazur>Infinity and the Mind - Rudy Rucker>Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou>Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis>Mathematics Made Difficult: A Handbook for the Perplexed - Carl E. Linderholm>Surreal Numbers: A Mathematical Novelette - Donald Knuth>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter>>25156393Récoltes et Semailles - Alexander Grothendieckhttps://matematicas.unex.es/~navarro/res/lisker1.pdf Notes pour La Clef des Songes (avec Les Mutants) - Alexander Grothendieck https://www.math.columbia.edu/~calebji/felix.pdf
>>25156407Is this a better translation of Récoltes et Semailles?
>>25156383Try >Calculus: A Liberal Art (a.k.a. Calculus: A Historical Approach), by William McGowen Priestley>Number: The Language of Science. A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician - Tobias Dantzig, Joseph Mazur, Barry Mazur>Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Timothy Gowers
>>25156407jesus. this is just what i was looking for, thanks anoni'm going to start on some of these tomorrow
>>25156412I don't know. But thanks to Navarro's website you can see there's at least four English versions, a russian and and japenese version as wellhttps://matematicas.unex.es/~navarro/res/
>>25156429I thought the book was supposed to be 1000+ pages. Both linked pdfs have only been 90 and 200 pages respectively. Am I missing something
>>25156407who doesn't do calculus in high school anyhow? You mean to tell me there some niggas walking around not knowing how to find the instantaneous rate of change in a system? lmaoooooooooo
>>25156443Maybe they were works in progress, dropped or not updated (URL)
>>25156452that's what i'm thinkingsupposedly there is a proper translation slated to come out any time now (late 2025 to early 2026)
>>25156449This is like asking who doesn't read El Quijote in high school. The world is diverse
>>25156457What a boring response to a clearly ironic post. Get some situational awareness, chimp.
>>25156407avoiding desirability really colors it in
>>25156352Don't bother with an advanced textbook until you know your level. You can start with The Humongous Book of (Pic) and then Algebra/Geometry/Trigonometry/Calculus/Statistics Problems in that order. Each book is insanely cheap and they will start you off slow and you can work your way up. If youre too advanced for the earlier books feel free to jump right into the calculus one. >The Calculus Lifesaver>Advantage Calculus (Zassoko)Are also great starting points if you're ready to do calc.
I need to learn calculus for med school, any advice?
>>25156407Based archivist. You should gift yourself something nice for this generous help.
>>25158836Has anyone used khan academy for school?
>>25156348Rudin
>>25156348Yes? Are you retarded? That's six books, do you expect me to just stop reading books after two months?
>>25160822Don't waste your time optimizing which book to read, pick literally anything in this thread, then:1. Look at the examples2. Do the problemsNot sure what you cover, but I've heard Spivak gives good intuition for non-mathtards, couldn't confirm though, being one myself.
>>25160829Yes. For the basic level, doing the exercises at Khan Academy is a better experience than doing odd numbered exercises from some textbook. Not sure about the videos though, because I hit 100% on some sections skipping almost all the vids. They just take too much time and I prefer to read
>>25160822An important piece of advice is you don't need to buy the latest edition. Many older and cheaper editions of the mainstream textbooks are equally useful if what you want to do is learning
>>25156407>that guy who recommends books he hasn't read
>>25156348>>25156383>>25156407Here's and interesting one for humanities fags, Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book by Moritz.
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>>25160924>why would anyone share a curated list of similar books compiled from various sources if he hasn't read every item in the list firstLists are always evolvinghttps://archive.org/details/infinityoflists0000ecouhttps://archive.org/details/listofbooks00raphhttps://archive.org/details/bookoflists0000wall
>>25156383Why? That book uses infintesimals to approach calculus, going with Newton's original method. He only changed it because weenies got upset at the idea of infintesimals and said it was insane and crazy and ludicrous
>>25161947Probability is cool and definitely the "it" thing in math right now (besides LinAlg) but I feel like we're at an all time high for snake-oil salesmen selling the Quant career path to normies. I'm even seeing ads for courses like people would do for crypto/dropshipping/webdev/scam of the week. Very few of us will ever be destined to work in HFT or a bank's derivatives lab and if you're not T30 math/compsci dual major picking this book up at 25 is at best an intellectual exercise.
