In particular, there is nothing about how to actually do calculations on a computer, with the excuse that you will usually use a library for this. This isn't helpful to me because I'm doing embedded programming, and also because I don't feel like I really understand math unless I know how to do calculations well enough to write a library myself.
All this coordinate-free manipulation of symbols leaves me feeling like I didn't really get anywhere. I was hoping for a more intuitive understanding.
Does anyone have recommendations that are more oriented towards doing calculations?