Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math? ↗
The books people recommended
2023-01-19 · 619 points · 317 comments · 83 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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- 6Art of Problem Solving
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- 5Principia Mathematica
- 5Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach
Hubbard
5 here · 10 all-time · #677 overall
- 4Calculus Made Easy
- 4Algebra
- 4Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- 4Statistics
- 3Calculus on Manifolds
- 3Discrete Mathematics with Applications
- 3Advanced Engineering Mathematics
- 3Methods of Mathematical Physics
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- 2Principles of Mathematical Analysis
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- 2Introduction to the Theory of Computation
- 2Visual Complex Analysis
- 2Road to Reality
- 2How to Prove It
- 2Abstract Algebra
- 2A Book of Abstract Algebra
- 2Book of Proof
- 2Engineering Mathematics
- 2Real and Complex Analysis
- 2Measurement
- 2Geometry and the Imagination
- 2A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
- 2Mathematics for the million
- 2The Shape of Space
- 2The Number Devil
- 2Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms
- 2An Introduction to Manifolds
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- 1Algorithms to Live By
- 1Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- 1Quantum Mechanics
- 1Proofs and Refutations
- 1All of Statistics
- 1How to Lie with Statistics
- 1Make: Electronics
- 1What If?
- 1How Not to Be Wrong
- 1Basic Mathematics
- 1Mathematics and Its History
- 1Discrete Mathematics
- 1Visual Group Theory
- 1The Joy of X
- 1The Art and Craft of Problem Solving
- 1Naive Set Theory
- 1Elementary Number Theory
- 1College Algebra
- 1Lost in Math
- 1The Mathematical Experience
- 1Trigonometry
- 1Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell
- 1Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
- 1A Mathematician's Lament
- 1The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
- 1Numerical Linear Algebra
- 1Baby Rudin
- 1From Mathematics to Generic Programming
From Mathematics to Generic Programming
Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose
1 here · 4 all-time · #1801 overall
- 1Linear Algebra and its Applications
- 1Understanding Analysis
- 1Introduction to Analysis
- 1Functions and Graphs
- 1Matrix Computations
- 1Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
- 1A Logical Approach to Discrete Math
- 1Number Theory
- 1Geometry for Programmers
- 1Mathematical Analysis
- 1Div Grad Curl and All That
- 1How to Think Like a Mathematician
- 1Numerical Recipes