Re: Self made mathematician

JDrozen wrote:

I'm an aspiring high schooler who wants to be a self study in math. Can you
suggest the literature where I can begin?


From another recent post:

Me:

Courant and Robbins, What is Mathematics?
Stewart, Concepts of Modern Mathematics

The latter is a particularly gentlle introduction. Unfortunately, it does not give suggestions for further reading, but you can always look for that on the Internet (e.g., by asking here.)

Go to amazon.com or your local well-stocked bookstore to look for similar books.

Also possibly of interest to you:
Davis and Hersh, The Mathematical Experience
Newman, ed., The World of Mathematics: to peruse, not to read cover to cover.


I also suspect you will find
Lehman, CH. College Algebra. New York: Wiley, 1962.
very enlightening. If you cannot find that particular text, other "college algebra" texts from around the same time will be similar. (Later texts are dumbed-down.)

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


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