Algebra
Israel Gelfand
20 people recommended it in 10 threads, 2009–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
Some of the problems in this book are HARD, but they are generally well posed problems of actual research interest to mathematicians, that just happen to be accessible to pupils just beginning to learn algebra.
The high school mathematics series by Israel Gelfand. Algebra, Trigonometry, The Method of Coordinates, and Functions and Graphs. I didn't have much mathematics background in high school, but working through these really solidified my grasp on the basics.
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