Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics? ↗
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2019-10-24 · 788 points · 171 comments · 41 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
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- 5Mathematical Methods for Physical Sciences
- 4Road to Reality
- 3Calculus Made Easy
- 3Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- 3Engineering Mathematics
- 3The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
3 here · 4 all-time · #1924 overall
- 3Mathematics Form and Function
- 2Real and Complex Analysis
- 2Geometry
- 2Introduction to Graph Theory
- 2General Chemistry
- 2Prelude to Mathematics
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- 1Visual Complex Analysis
- 1Classical Mechanics
- 1Measurement
- 1Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
David Foster Wallace
1 here · 7 all-time · #966 overall
- 1Geometry and the Imagination
- 1Mathematics and Its History
- 1The Variational Principles of Mechanics
- 1No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics
- 1Visual Group Theory
- 1Gravitation
- 1Concepts of Modern Mathematics
- 1Mathematics for the million
- 1Elements of Mathematics
- 1Conceptual Mathematics
- 1Mathematician's Delight
- 1The Number Devil
- 1An Infinitely Large Napkin
- 1Introduction to Analysis
- 1Differential Equations
- 1Sync
- 1No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra
- 1Infinite Powers