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As to your second question, a classical textbook is S. L. Loney's Plane Trigonometry. It's old, but extremely thorough, and great fun too if you like history. https://ia802703.us.archive.org/26/items/planetrigonomet00lonegoog/planetrigonomet00lonegoog.pdf A similar work on spherical...

Thanks! I'll certainly give both of these a try.

(Thanks for your reply!) Because I enjoy the kind of mathematics used in mathematical physics. The more direct reason is that I'm currently reading Peter Szekeres's A Course in Modern Mathematical Physics, mainly as a preparation for more advanced courses. I think it's a great book. And as far...

Thanks for this list of books! I'll definitely look into it, especially Landau & Lifshitz, which I saw on one of my physicist friends' shelf.

Thanks for your reply and for mentioning this book! If the Amazon preview is anything to go by, then this is exactly the kind of book I'm likely to enjoy.

Dear forum members, This is my first post on Physics Forums. I'm very happy to have found this place and to be a member. My question isn't very complicated. I'm a math major with a reasonable grasp of the standard undergraduate analysis curriculum (including differential equations and complex...