Visual X

Needham’s book is the example par excellence of treating modern analytical material in a more classical, geometric vein; some of these books approach it in that regard, while others just include nice pictures or illustrations. I’m sure I’m forgetting about many texts with beautiful figures; I’ll add to the list as I’m reminded of them.

Tristan Needham, Visual Complex Analysis

Nathan Carter, Visual Group Theory

Martin Weissman, An Illustrated Theory of Numbers

Elias Wegert, Visual Complex Functions

Siegmund Brandt and Hans Dieter Dahmen, The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics

James Callahan, Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View

H. M. Schey, Div, Grad, Curl and All That

Michio Kuga, Galois’ Dream: Group Theory and Differential Equations

Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation

Michael Spivak, A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry

David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen, Geometry and the Imagination