Which one of these books would be best for a rigorous brush-up of high school mathematics? And if I go with A&O, which book should I supplement it with to get the geometry treatment Lang has, but A&O lacks?
Axler Pre-Calculus or Stitz-Zeager Pre-Calculus
>>9081351
>which book should I supplement it with to get the geometry treatment Lang has, but A&O lacks?
Lang
>>9081379
Axler Pre-Calculus is so huge, just use simmons precalc in a nutshell...
>>9081602
>comprehensive, rigorous brush-up
bump for more rigorous books for preparing for calculus. Stuff that starts with logic and sets and then moves on to define the different number sets, etc. would be great.
>>9083772
foundations of analysis landau
or if you're gay
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
By F. William Lawvere, Stephen H. Schanuel
lang is kinda shitty after 50 pages
and the answers are selected
>>9083792
Foundations of Analysis seem like a great book, most what AMS Chelsea publishes is, but the problem is that it stops after the numbers, and doesn't mention sets or logic at all.
I'm looking for something that is basically like Landau's book, but starts just one step before, with sets, but also discusses things like functions, geometry (Analytic as well as "basic", and coordinate), and trigonometry, as well as some algebra that would be expected at a high-school level; all rigorously.
>>9083884
Halmos NST+Landau+Lang
>>9083889
I'm assuming you mean Naive Set Theory by Halmos. Looks like just what I'm looking for.
Not sure what NST is though, and would Lang's book really be necessary after those others?
Thanks for the good recommendations by the way.
>inb4 some hotheads say they did diff equations in 7th grade
>>9083792
Why do you keep posting the picture of this androgynous individual?
>>9083898
Nevermind I'm fucking retarded, Halmos NST, I get it.
So why would you recommend Lang over A&O after Halmos and Landau?
>>9084558
pls respond