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2021-05-19 · 289 points · 108 comments · 8 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.

3What Is Mathematics?
What Is Mathematics?
Richard Courant
3 here · 17 all-time · #385 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 571 ratings on Amazon
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The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth
2 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
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Calculus
Spivak
2 here · 99 all-time · #30 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187 ratings on Amazon
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Concrete Mathematics
Donald Knuth
2 here · 46 all-time · #98 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2 ratings on Amazon
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Timothy Gowers
1 here · 26 all-time · #227 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 454 ratings on Amazon
1Trigonometry
Trigonometry
Israel Gelfand
1 here · 4 all-time · #1565 overall
1Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell
Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell
George Finlay Simmons
1 here · 4 all-time · #1591 overall
1Differential Equations
Differential Equations
Blanchard, Devaney and Hall
1 here · 3 all-time · #2033 overall