Books I Recommend
I don’t understand why people recommend books like “a programmers introduction to mathematics”.<p>They’re advertised as books for “programmers” or people that know little math, yet they hide solutions from the reader.<p>The reader that doesn’t know proper proofs or deep mathematics likely isn’t the same ones that know if their solutions are correct.<p>Programmers like to write code with test cases. We don’t like to write code once and trust there are no bugs. So, why would we want to write mathematics any differently? How is a beginner math student even going to know if their answers are correct? I’m sure someone reading this will say “you’re robbing the reader” if you provide solutions. I don’t agree with that. That’s a bit of gatekeeping because not everyone has access to a TA or professor and we’d really like to learn this stuff and know if we’re on the right track.<p>Are there any actual math text with solutions that are better than the one advertised in this list?