bourbaki is fairly early. the date on your site is related to translation.
although the halmos book appears wordy, i think he has a sound pedagogical style appropriate to his target audience, having glanced at the text mentioned here and really enjoyed his book on set theory.
> by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others
ah, no need to paint such a glum picture: there are only a few facts that will appear and reappear in many of the theoretical books, b/c there is only one thing called, "vector space," one thing called, "hilbert space," and so on.
for hacking, of course, numerical methods are what many readers will be interested in...
> Weird Russian
this might be the best section, except for the categorical "weird" label. the iron curtain must have been sort of like a semi-porous membrane. probably just about every book list on math topics considered during the mid-20th-century ought to include some books by russian authors.
bourbaki is fairly early. the date on your site is related to translation.
although the halmos book appears wordy, i think he has a sound pedagogical style appropriate to his target audience, having glanced at the text mentioned here and really enjoyed his book on set theory.
> by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others
ah, no need to paint such a glum picture: there are only a few facts that will appear and reappear in many of the theoretical books, b/c there is only one thing called, "vector space," one thing called, "hilbert space," and so on.
for hacking, of course, numerical methods are what many readers will be interested in...
> Weird Russian
this might be the best section, except for the categorical "weird" label. the iron curtain must have been sort of like a semi-porous membrane. probably just about every book list on math topics considered during the mid-20th-century ought to include some books by russian authors.