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Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by vmilner on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:54AM (#34442517)
I’m reading and like Thomas Garrity’s “All the mathematics you missed (but need for graduate school)” which is this but for people who did a bachelors degree but missed certain areas (or forgot them).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Math-You-Missed-Graduate/dp/100...

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Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by trenchgun on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:05PM (#34442681)
I bought and read it (more like, skimmed) and liked it a lot too.

Gives a bird's eye view of math very nicely. Even from a skimming it was very useful to help me understand the gaps I have, and the shape of those gaps, and partially filling them.

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Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ... by vmilner on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:51PM (#34446143)
Something else I’ve found extremely useful in getting into maths topics is the Princeton Companion to Mathematics - it doesn’t have exercises but gives excellent overview essays of a wide range of maths topics - expensive to buy (mine was a present) but should be available in academic libraries, say.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Tim...

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