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White Longman, 1999 Great Reference + :) + Strunk and White should be next to your dictionary. + The Elements of Style + Elements of Style, a text for a lifetime             How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)103 reviews Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren Touchstone, 1972 Must Read! + How to Read a Book + Good, but fairly obvious. This book has greatly helped me. I think this should be required reading in any school, be it home or public. I will certainly have my new born read it (well, once she is old enough). Now I have so many more tools available to me while reading. You will not read the same after reading this book. If ...             How to Prove It: A Structured Approach27 reviews Daniel J. Velleman Cambridge University Press, 2006 Rigorous but accesible..an engineer's intro to proofs + How To Prove It: A Structured Approach 2nd Edition + Good book, but it requires a lot of work to be useful + proofs give me headaches + Quality overview             The Art and Craft of Problem Solving20 reviews Paul Zeitz Wiley, 2006 Outstanding, but you will need other sources + Opens your mind + Problem Solving Strategies + Great 2nd edition; Would have liked more solved problems...             Problem-Solving Strategies (Problem Books in Mathematics)13 reviews Arthur Engel Springer, 1999 Maths book that invites you to think but does not drive you away + Lots of Problems + great book for mathematics competitions + First time preparing elite gr. 10 - 12 students for competition?             A Course of Pure Mathematics (Cambridge Mathematical Library)17 reviews G.H. Hardy Cambridge University Press, 1993 Let's Not Go Overboard + A CLASSIC AND A MASTERPIECE. + Excellence is Timeless First, this is very nice book that was first published in 1908. It is EXTREMELY well written BUT what Hardy does in around 500 pages Rudin does in around 100 and with a more rigor (but, admittedly, very terse). You also have to remember that if you are studying analysis from a book 100 years old ...             How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)32 reviews G. Polya Princeton University Press, 2004 Problem Solving Methods - Excellent Book on Heuristics + Excellent book and recommended reading for anybody + How To Solve It, Polya + Not just for academics             What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods29 reviews Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Outstanding writing + What is "What is Mathematics"??? + Review by Undergraduate Math Major + It's incredible (when read carefully with a controlled imagination) + enlightenment !