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Try reading A Journey Through Genius:

http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathem...

The read part is _great_, and it gets you to do math in a way that flows pretty easily from the reading.

bradx3 · 2009-01-22 · Original thread
I don't have the source handy, but I remember reading that during his lifetime, Euler was responsible for one third of the entire world's output of new work in the Mathematical Sciences (Maths, Physics and Optics I guess).

ONE THIRD!

(I think it was from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathem...)

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