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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by cia_plant on Friday April 18, 2008 @09:31PM (#167785)
I found Artin to be overly wordy and often imprecise. I found Hungerford to be extremely dry and boring, but admittedly I only got through a short part of it.

Lang is very good, IMO, but more difficult.

Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by carterschonwald on Saturday April 19, 2008 @06:21PM (#168169)
my experience was that Hungerford's presentation was organized, concise, and its great how he is explicit in differentiating between a proof and a proof sketch.

I'd hesitate to suggest to any of Lang's writings as the first go on a technical topic. If you are already comfortable with the material, his writings will give new insight and intuitions, but thats different from a first go at understanding a topic

(note to audience, we're talking about different math textbooks)