Geometry revisited

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• generationP · Jul 3, 2020 · Recommends

  …mentioned for u/pmiller2) if the kid likes numbers. That's perhaps the guiding thread of the book -- it's about the beautiful (yet usually very elementary and natural) things you can do with numbers. Geometry Revisited by Coxeter and Greitzer and/or Episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Euclidean Geometry by Honsberger if the kid is into plane geometry. It's an idyllic subject, great for independent exploration,…

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• nextos · Nov 13, 2013 · Recommends

  …Counting (Niven) * Introduction to Probability Theory (Hoel) * The Little Schemer (Friedman) The proceed to more advanced texts like: * Naive Set Theory (Halmos) * Linear Algebra Done Right (Axler) * Geometry Revisited (Coxeter) * Infinitesimal Calculus (Keisler) * Concrete Mathematics (Graham) * Information Theory, Inference and Learning (MacKay) * SICP (Abelson)

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