Well-Made Math Books

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Forget about the content: What math books are well-designed, well-printed, and well-bound? "Math" should be interpreted broadly to include statistics and computer science.
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
by Donald E. Knuth
1,502 members
5 reviews
½ 4.5
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cpg, aulsmith
Explanations
cpg: Third Edition.
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms
by Donald E. Knuth
956 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
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cpg
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cpg: Third Edition
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching
by Donald E. Knuth
947 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
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cpg: Third Edition
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers
542 members
4 reviews
½ 4.6
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1
by Donald E. Knuth
208 members
4.8
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cpg: Third Edition
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Analytic Combinatorics
by Philippe Flajolet
37 members
4.2
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Physics for Mathematicians, Mechanics I
by Michael Spivak
26 members
½ 3.5
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Explanations
cpg: Cover design is very plain, but for Spivak that is an improvement!
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Handbook of Linear Algebra
by Leslie Hogben
23 members
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cpg: Original printing
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Markov Chains and Mixing Times
by David A. Levin
18 members
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Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
14 members
5
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cpg: Original printing
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Optimal Transport: Old and New
by Cédric Villani
9 members
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cpg: Original printing