Re:Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only...
by mhartl on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @07:10PM
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Take a look at Journey through Genius by William Dunham. I read it after high school and ended up spending much of the summer with a straightedge and compass making geometric constructions. It's not all geometry, though; there's plenty of other good stuff, including some gems from Euler and Cantor's incredible diagonal proof of the cardinality of the rationals.
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