Ask HN: Math books like SICP?

I'm a big fan of SICP.

after reading SICP, largely because I very much liked some of the more mathematical fragments in SICP

Knuth's TAOCP series

Spivak's Calculus is like SICP.

I found it delightful - it really approaches the topics from first principles

Spivak's 'Calculus' is pretty close

1. Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Rudin

Pairing little Rudin with a more user-friendly book like Understanding Analysis by Abbott is a great way to learn the material

Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin (sometimes referred to as little Rudin) is a great place to start

the first one — pretty simple, pretty clear, fun to read.

I third the recommendation on Axler's LADR

Axler's LADR is indeed fantastic

has my highest recommendation if you want expertise in linear algebra

David Mackay's Information Theory, Inference and Learning algorithms doesn't cover everything, but it ties up a lot of important topics.

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics [1] is good if you want to gawk at the breadth and depth of the field.

or maybe Princeton Companion: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html

is there a better math book than Visual Complex Analysis by Needham?

it's a wonderful introduction and I don't see it mentioned in this thread yet: Needham's "Visual Complex Analysis".

this mega book that covers a lot of advanced topics in math by Kolmogorov et al.

Jan Gullberg wrote an excellent book: Mathematics: from the Birth of Numbers.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...

I'd recommend Rosen's "Discrete Math and Applications"

You should definitely look at Naive Set Theory by Halmos.

Naive set theory by Paul Halmos