Geometry and the Imagination
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Geometry and the Imagination
Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen
7 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2018–2023.
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But if you can spend the time to really understand the dazzling intellectual fireworks going on there it will reward you with a very strong intuitive understanding of a lot of practical mathematics.
Geometry and the Imagination. The gold standard of popular mathematics writing. A beautiful book.
Nobody has mentioned yet "Geometry and the Imagination" by Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen. If there is a Feynman equivalent in math it is certainly this book.
Geometry and the Imagination (just the chapter on synthetic differential geometry is worth more than 10 other great books)
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