Re: Self-education for a late-onset math geek

DanEsch wrote (in part):

Single-variable in high school, multi-variable in
college - the problem of course being that the
single-variable stuff wasn't appropriate prep for
the mulitvariable course I did take.

Then I think the best thing for you is to get Spivak's
"Calculus" (not his "Calculus on Manifolds", which is
much more advanced) and G. H. Hardy's "A Course of Pure
Mathematics". If money is an issue, then get Spivak's
book.

Dave L. Renfro
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