Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager? ↗
The books people recommended
2020-07-02 · 297 points · 187 comments · 81 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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- 6Principles of Mathematical Analysis
- 5What Is Mathematics?
- 5Art of Problem Solving
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- 3The Annotated Turing
- 3Mathematics and Its History
- 3Proofs from The Book
- 3God Created the Integers
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- 2Calculus Made Easy
- 2Quantum Computing since Democritus
- 2Visual Complex Analysis
- 2Road to Reality
- 2Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- 2Engineering Mathematics
- 2Real and Complex Analysis
- 2Gödel's Proof
- 2Visual Group Theory
- 2Concepts of Modern Mathematics
- 2Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure
Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure
2 here · 4 all-time · #1795 overall
- 2Advanced Calculus
- 2The Book of Numbers
- 2An Infinitely Large Napkin
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- 1Real Analysis
- 1How to Prove It
- 1Abstract Algebra
- 1Statistics
- 1Logicomix
- 1Introduction to Statistical Learning
Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
1 here · 12 all-time · #534 overall
- 1Proofs and Refutations
- 1Our Mathematical Universe
- 1Fermat's Last Theorem
- 1Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Hubbard
1 here · 10 all-time · #677 overall
- 1Discrete Mathematics with Applications
- 1Measurement
- 1How Not to Be Wrong
- 1Geometry and the Imagination
- 1Topology
- 1Journey Through Genius
- 1A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
- 1Problems in General Physics
- 1The Joy of X
- 1Mathematical Proofs
- 1The Little LISPer
- 1Elements of Mathematics
- 1Conceptual Mathematics
- 1Elementary Number Theory
- 1Prime Obsession
- 1Complex Analysis
- 1Methods of Mathematical Physics
- 1The Pattern on the Stone
- 1The Mathematical Experience
- 1Introduction to Logic
- 1Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
- 1The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
- 1The World of Mathematics
- 1Functions and Graphs
- 1Number Theory
- 1Super Crunchers
- 1Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces
- 1Infinite Powers
- 1Mathematical Analysis
- 1love and math
- 1How to Think Like a Mathematician
- 1Surreal Numbers
- 1Cryptography
- 1General Chemistry
- 1Letters to a Young Mathematician