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as the title says, I wanted to ask about mathematics textbooks that are both written recently and are comprehensive. This post What books must every math undergraduate read? has a bunch of good suggestions, but many of the textbooks are quite old. Time has taken its toll on many older the books, where standard notation and presentation has changed a fair amount. For example, recent books aren't really written as terse as Rudin, and manifolds are generally defined as sets with some properties instead of subsets of some $\mathbb{R}^n$ like in Guillemin and Pollack. In the following paragraph, I will give my suggestions for textbooks.

For point set topology, differential topology, and Riemannian geometry, I suggest the manifolds trilogy by Lee. That is: Introduction to Topological Manifolds, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, and Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds, all by Lee. Tu's books on manifolds and Riemannian geometry are contenders in this, but Lee is more comprehensive than those. For a first linear algebra textbook, I suggest Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler.

I would like to suggest Understanding Analysis by Abbott and Functions of Several Real Variables by Moskowitz and Paliogiannis to this list for single and multivariable real analysis respectively, but when compared to a book like Rudin they are considerably less comprehensive.

Machvel
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  • “Time has taken its toll on many older books” Math is evergreen. Rudin is still a very elegant and beautiful presentation of analysis. But I do agree that we are making progress on explaining math clearly and I often find some of the more recently written books easier to read and learn from than Rudin. I like the books you mentioned. – littleO Apr 03 '22 at 03:57
  • It's tough to tell whether you're asking a question, or whether you came here to share some of your favorite books with us. – Novice Apr 03 '22 at 04:20
  • Sorry if it came across as trying to share some books that I liked. I wanted to give a few examples to try and make my question a bit more clear. – Machvel Apr 03 '22 at 04:24

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There are so many books to recommend, but I like to recommend one of my favorite books:

Real Analysis: Second Edition (2008) 2nd Edition

  • Andrew M. Bruckner, Judith B. Bruckner and Brian S. Thomson

Link for Bruckner's book on Real Analysis

Real Analysis - Bruckner (2008)

Dr. Sundar
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