Boring math - does it happen?

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Not so long ago, I graduated with good grades in the specialty "Applied Mathematics and Informatics" at a good university.
Today I am a backend developer with little experience. It so happened that mathematics (everything that was, starting with matan and ending with algebraic structures) was not very interesting. I will explain - it was nice to get to the bottom of interesting things on your own, but in the end, the whole process of studying the theory came down to an attempt to independently understand what the essence of the theorem, the approach is. At the same time - the lectures were boring, the people who read them - the same.
Therefore, I thought that all mathematics is like this: dry, inanimate, boring.
This morning I thought: "What if I was wrong? - What if there are books that are really interesting to read, the author of which does not spread formalism along the tree and at the same time gives a good, complete understanding of what he is talking about?"
This is the question I ask you, dear experts: are there non-boring, good books on mathematics with a pleasant balance between formalism and practice / informal explanation of the essence?
Note 1: unfortunately, I can’t draw mathematics in English (
Note 2: books on category theory, algebraic structures, mathematical logic, game theory and algorithms are especially interesting

Answer 1

Read Perelman Stoll then.
Jacob, of course.

Answer 2

Write/go to lectures with this person. It is strange that by education you seem to be close to mathematics, but you don’t know famous personalities in this environment, but this is just an observation.

Answer 3

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner,_Martin
Several of his books in Russian were published in the Soviet years. I don't know if there are modern editions.

Answer 4

Not books but still .. Channel 3Blue1Brown. For example, a video about what the Fourier transform is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY. There are no specialized courses on the channel, but rather essays on the essence of certain sections of mathematics. The video is in English, but some videos have Russian subtitles.

Answer 5

Not about books, but about boring mathematics: Look at Numberphile - it will push you to interesting topics. Just don't watch the very old ones, where they just talk about interesting numbers. Start with the popular ones.
A few more interesting mathematical topics are dealt with by Penrose in The New Mind of the King . IMHO, great book.

Answer 6

Boring math - does it happen?

It happens in textbooks of the 50s and 60s, because the current ones are copy-paste with errors from various foreign literature, a redneck translation, or each other with machine paraphrasing, a reddit.

Answer 7

I personally like Vladimir Shramenko's math channel on YouTube. Very exciting, simple and most importantly modern explains any mathematical topics and theorems. Recommend!

Answer 8

I don’t know about books, but there is a terrible channel Lectorium . There's a lot of everything there.

Answer 9

https://www.yakaboo.ua/jak-nikoli-ne-pomiljatisja-...
here is a fascinating book