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Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by tjchear on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:56PM (#28132738)
Any books you can recommend that are similar to the Soviet Math textbooks you talked about?
Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by udev on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:54PM (#28137398)
A book that appeared previously on Hackernews is Lev Tarasov's "The world is built on probability". This is not striclty a textbook, but it is translated in English in a way that preserves a lot of the feel of the original: https://archive.org/details/TheWorldIsBuiltOnProbability

For examples of beautifully crafted exercises see this: https://www.imaginary.org/sites/default/files/taskbook_arnol...

There are plenty of books in Western literature where exercises are also very good, and not only in math, but other fields too. One that comes to mind is Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls", which has very well chosen exercises.

Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'... by kevinkeller on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:39PM (#28150609)
"Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods, And Meaning"

https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...