This book looks awesome. Mathematics is so vast that as a student its hard to know what classes you should take, or even what the map of the territory looks lik

This book looks awesome. Mathematics is so vast that as a student its hard to know what classes you should take, or even what the map of the territory looks like. That is one of the reasons I got frustrated with my pure math BS. The Russian school put out some pretty massive volumes, like http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Its-Content-Methods-Meaning/dp/0486409163/ http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Its-Content-Methods-Meanin... but I found those to be a little too caught up in the proposition/proof cycle to be useful as a guide to the uninitiated.