Re: Great Math Books for High School Students?

Karl M. Bunday wrote:

I'd like to ask for suggestions for suitable books for math-avid young people who have completed a course in "precalculus" mathematics and want to smell the roses beyond a standard presentation of differential and integral calculus. 


Abbott, Flatland.
Courant and Robbins, What is Mathematics?
Davis and Hersh, The Mathematical Experience
Landau, Foundations of Analysis.

I read the last one during the summer between sophomore and junior years of college, and I personally found the rigorous development of numbers fascinating. I think "math-avid young people" should be able to understand at least most of it. After that, send them to Halmos, Naive Set Theory.

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Stephen J. Herschkorn                        sjherschko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Math Tutor in Central New Jersey and Manhattan

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