Hugh Trevor-Roper has a reputation as a brilliant and incisive historian. He was not simply an academic historian, but took an active part in the events of his time, the most important of which was World War Two. He was an intelligence officer then, pitted against the Germans, and the insight and personal knowledge gained from this experience proved to be invaluable when it came to writing his first important book, 'Hitler's Table Talk'.
Each of his dozen or so books is an extremely lucid, direct, and unpedantic analysis of people and events both interesting and important. People who have read 'Renaissance Essays' should also read his earlier masterpiece, 'Rise of Christian… Read more
I would advise readers to ignore the mindless comments made by one of the reviewers of this book.
Books on linear algebra don't come better than this. Sure, it is not for dummies like 'rururu', but for the mathematically mature. It is very concise, so you must be prepared to spend a little effort if you don't understand something immediately. I found the book very clearly written, with good proofs that are easy to follow, lots of useful examples, and solutions to problems are given at the end of the book.
Readers should note that the author is a very important Russian mathematician, a former professor of mathematics at Moscow University, one of great centres of mathematical… Read more
Is there anywhere a more logical, concise and lucid presentation of real analysis than Kolmogorov and Fomin's Introductory Real Analysis?
The material proceeds in such a beautiful order that I found myself, in a matter of days, going from set theory to linear functionals. The chapters on metric spaces and topological spaces were particularly great, with excellent problems. Kolmogorov was not only a great mathematician but also a great teacher and expositor, like many of the other great Russian mathematicians like Gelfand, Khinchin.
It's hard to believe that such a slim volume could provide a solid first course in real analysis. But it's so compact and well-priced that it should be… Read more
