D+F’s exposition is decent, but I’ve read better. I seldom used this book to teach myself a subject without first learning about it in lecture, so I can’t comment too much here. The price is fairly high, but the book is huge. There is plenty of material here and it’s arguably one of the few math books worth the list price. Nevertheless, you’d …

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