Good reads

This is a collection of math-related books and articles that I enjoyed reading. I do not recommend text books on algebra or group theory, since in these cases I prefer my own lectures notes.

• O. Forster, Analysis 1, 13. Auflage, Springer Spektrum, 2023 (most concise German text)
• K. Fritzsche, Grundkurs Funktionentheorie, 3. Auflage, Springer Spektrum 2024 (very linear reading)
• A. Leutbecher, Zahlentheorie, Springer, 1996 (extremely carefully written, serious use of traditional German language)
• G. Navarro, Characters and blocks of finite groups, CUP, 1998 (down to earth approach, best intro to Brauer's theory)
• T. Petsinis, The French mathematician, Walker & Co, 1998 (a novel based on Galois' life)
• K. Ono, A. D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan, Springer, 2016 (Ono compares his emigrant life to Ramanujan's)
• S. G. Krantz, Mathematical Apocrypha (redux), AMS, 2002 (2006) (faithful mathematical anecdotes)
• P. R. Halmos, I want to be a mathematician, Springer, 1985 (confidential details of the AMS in the last century, sometimes a bit long-winded)
• S. Budiansky, Journey to the Edge of Reason: The life of Kurt Gödel, Norton & Company, 2021 (Gödel's intense personality provides plenty of entertainment)

• P. R. Halmos, How to write mathematics, l’Enseignement Mathématique 16 (1970), 123–152, pdf
• P. R. Halmos, How to talk mathematics, Notices of the AMS (1974) 21, 155–158, pdf
• P. G. Casazza, A mathematician's survival guide, pdf
• W. P. Thurston, On proof and progress in mathematics, Bull. AMS 30 (1994), 161–177, pdf
• G.-C. Rota, Ten lessons I wish I had been taught, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1997), 22–25, pdf
• D. E. Knuth, Two notes on notation, Amer. Math. Monthly 99 (1992), 403-422, pdf
• J.-P. Serre, How to write mathematics badly, talk, YouTube