Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students

I just happened to find this book browsing through my campus library a few days ago: Basic Training in Mathematics A Fitness Program for Science Students Shankar, R. http://www.springer.com/physics/book/978-0-306-45036-5 Meant as a review/primer for undergraduates in the physical sciences and engineering. Mainly covers topics in calculus and linear algebra. Does a fairly good job of covering the connections between ideas and some of the intuition behind ideas, while keeping things pretty concise. That is my review after finishing the first chapter, which is as far as I've got. The "Basic Training" perspective peeks through in comments like: "Trigonometric functions, identities and derivatives, radian measures for angles. These will not be listed here since you must have already learned them by heart as a child." So don't expect to be overly molly-coddled by this book.…