The "I wish I had read that first" textbook list

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I surely wish I has read Katsumi Nomizu' Fundamentals of Linear Algebra before any other textbook written about that subject.


I wish I had The Joy of Sets by Keith Devlin when l started learning set theory

I also wish I bought Croom’s Princples of Topology It is an excellent book.

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