Common Sense Mathematics
by Ethan D. Bolker, Maura B. Mast · first published 2021
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…something along the lines of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Spivak's Calculus, or Moor & Mertens The Nature of Computation. > What would you have appreciated having been given at that age? Common Sense Mathematics by Ethan D. Bolker and Maura B. Mast My friend was assigned this book for a quantitative reasoning class in college and I was so impressed by how approachable it was. It's got sections on things like…
on “Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?” ↗Has anyone read "Common Sense Mathematics"? I really liked that book for shortcuts to elementary maths for mathematical analysis of everyday things.
on “Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?” ↗