Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good teacher?

Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by hsn915 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:32AM (#31488706)

I believe Richard Feynman has mentioned in interviews that he learned calculus from "Calculus Made Easy".

IIRC there might have been other books in a "Made Easy" series about math, but I'm not sure.

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Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by jamal-kumar on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:51AM (#31488823)

That's one of the books my grandpa had that I wish I had managed to get before that whole collection got dispersed because I remember him reading it over like a ten year time period. He just liked repeating variations on the exercises I think

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Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by vmilner on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:44AM (#31493570)

He also liked "Advanced Calculus" by Woods (possibly not for his first calculus text, but it happened to be six inches from my hand as I read this.)

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Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by gfaregan on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @09:14PM (#31499516)

I liked that book. It uses differentials to give simple explanations of various derivatives, which seems to be frowned upon these days. You can download the book for free if I'm not mistaken. I once recommended it to a calculus class I was TAing for, though I don't think they were very impressed.

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Re:Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good... by selimthegrim on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:16PM (#31495618)

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