All the Mathematics You Missed
by Thomas A. Garrity · first published 2001
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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...
on “Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?” ↗All the Mathematics You Missed: http://www.amazon.com/All-Mathematics-You-Missed-Graduate/dp...
on “Ask HN: good math books” ↗For a bunch of topics in math broadly, this is a nice book, with an emphasis on intuition rather than thorough proofs(hence a compact and readable book) : All the Mathematics You Missed by Thomas A. Garrity https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967329.All_the_Mathemati... There's of course Roger Penrose's "The road to reality" which has a completely different emphasis (more focused on…
on “What Is Gaussian Curvature?” ↗Cool, available on archive.org too Did you read the book in isolation or was it a part of a class / MOOC ? https://archive.org/details/all-the-mathematics-you-missed
on “Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP” ↗