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What a conspicuous absence of Russian books! To mention only a tiny handful:

- Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov, Alexandrov, et al

- Shafarevich's Basic Notions of Algebra

- Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics

Another favorite (though German, not Russian) is Brieskorn and Knörrer's Plane Algebraic Curves.

"Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning", seconded! I bought it a couple of years ago when I first read about it on HN and have to say that it is a highly readable account of mathematics.

Thank you for your feedback, psykotic. In our defense, the submission form was open to everyone. We simply published the entries we received. We may do a follow up post that incorporates other suggestions, if we receive enough of them.

Oh, it wasn't a complaint so much as an expression of genuine surprise that these wonderful books aren't more widely known.

We can make them a bit more popular. ;-) Would you be interested in guest blogging an entry about foreign or specifically Russian math books?

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