Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?
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jonbarker · Oct 25, 2019
More general purpose problem solving but written by a mathematician and one of the best books I've ever read!
alok-g · Oct 25, 2019
Feynman's Lectures are much more complete in that sense, even though as other comments on this thread note, the reader may not be able to use the learning to solve practical problems without going beyond Feynman's lectures.
sideshowb · Oct 25, 2019
Vol 1 was good. Vol 2 was good though overly repetitive, iirc it's 90 percent Maxwell's equations. Vol 3 was unintuitive to me.
mturmon · Oct 24, 2019
Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik's Concrete Mathematics has the same exploratory and informal tone that the Feynman lectures have.
thanatropism · Oct 24, 2019
The Princeton Companions to Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are beautiful to leaf through at the library.
DrPhish · Oct 24, 2019
it was a great and entertaining way to fill in the gaps from my meager math education
alok-g · Oct 25, 2019
I have a love-hate relationship with that book. It elegantly shows how to think about the topics, but it also left me with many unanswered questions
elorant · Oct 24, 2019
quite difficult, but it's also very inspiring in finding various topics to read more
iamaelephant · Oct 24, 2019
I read and re-read Lectures on Physics but I was never able to finish Road to Reality.
math_phd_to_dev · Oct 25, 2019
Real & Complex and Baby Rudin are still the gold standard for analysis texts.