Reddit mentions of The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue

William Dunham, an author I appreciate because he succeeds in popularizing mathematics without sacrificing rigorous exposition, wrote on the Baire Category theorem in The Calculus Gallery. I too was a bit confused as to the motivation of Baire's Category theorem until I went back and read his chapter. I don't have my copy handy at the moment but I recommend checking out that book for an expository and historical explanation.

The Calculus Gallery - Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue by William Dunham it's like having the world's best math teacher lead you thru all the jaw-dropping amazing parts of the history of calculus; how at each stage someone figured out some bizarre counter-example which caused the next person to push calculus along further. With understandable equations!

Here are some great books that I believe you may find helpful :)

• Elements of Algebra by Leonhard Euler
  
• Foundations of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
  
• Geometry Revisited by H. S. M. Coxeter
  
• Excursions in Calculus by Robert M. Young
  
• New Horizons in Geometry by Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
  
• The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces From Newton to Lebesgue by William Dunham
  
• A Primer of Real Functions by Ralph P. Boas
  
• Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbot
  
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  
• Logic: An Introduction to Elementary Logic by Wilfred Hodges
  
  and last but definitely not least:
  
  
• A Mathematical Gift I, II, III by Kenji Ueno et al.
  
  Later on:
  
  
• Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories by F. William Lawvere
  
• Twelve Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Analysis by D. Choimet & H. Queffélec
  
• Theory of Complex Functions by Reinhold Remmert
  
• Algebraic Combinatorics. Walks, Trees, Tableaux & More by Richard P. Stanley