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Re:Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only... by dfarm on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @05:31PM (#299856)
Based on what you wrote you would hate Courant and Robbins What is Mathematics?, too rigorous. I think you would enjoy Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg and Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus Thompson.

You might also find Unknown Quantity interesting. I think Gullberg would be my #1 req for you.

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