Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math? ↗
The books people recommended
2023-01-19 · 619 points · 317 comments · 12 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
- 2Calculus
- 1How to Solve It
- 1Concrete Mathematics
Concrete Mathematics
Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik
1 here · 14 all-time · #80 overall
- 1Linear Algebra Done Right
- 1Linear Algebra
- 1The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
- 1Principles of Mathematical Analysis
- 1How to Prove It
- 1The Elements of Statistical Learning
The Elements of Statistical Learning
Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman
1 here · 5 all-time · #299 overall
- 1Visual Complex Analysis
- 1Calculus on Manifolds
- 1Information theory, inference and learning algorithms