>>13861365I don't know a lot of advanced math but I remember reading the book on the foundations of geometry by the same Russian author in the OP and it was pretty good. It goes straight to the core of the issues and avoids pointless details and fluff. Western books seem to be written under the assumption that the reader is a nigger.
>>13861456>Dover publishing have quite a fewI remember reading a few of them (like Shilov's Linear Algebra). Many of those Soviet books published by Dover were translated by Richard Silverman and his own original books have a bit of a Russian flavor as well.
>>13861471Richard Silverman's "Modern Calculus and Analytic Geometry" is not a Russian book but it has a similar spirit and it covers everything very slowly. It's about a thousand page long and it is nearly self-contained, starting from sets and functions and ending with basic multivariable calculus. It is fairly clear and easy to understand, though you will need to know some elementary synthetic geometry (so it's not wholly self-contained, but that's pretty much the only thing you need to know) and some of the proofs aren't as rigorous as Apostol's or Spivak's. It is a fairly decent introduction nonetheless.
