On: Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)

[godmodus]

Because they assume a false premise (hah! Does this count as a pun?) and take a high road. Best series of books i read about matg tgst really helped me were the "for the practical man" series of books!

Another book i recommend that helped me was "the architecture of math" by pierre basieux.

These books really assume nothing beyond the ability to read and do a great job!

[Rzor → godmodus]

I can't find any Architecture of Math authored by that person. Are you sure that's the author?

[godmodus → Rzor]

https://www.amazon.de/Die-Architektur-Mathematik-Denken-Stru...

it might not have an english translation, but there you go man

here's a good reads link with all his books http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/745580.Pierre_Basieux

the original is in french, it seems the only options to read it is to either know german, or french!