Book suggestions

[Ceritus]

I am looking to further my education in mathematics, basically because I am bored and I need something to do for my last year in the airforce. I would take classes but with my work schedule there is no way I could attend anymore classes.

If possible could anyone suggest a progressive list of books because it has been some time since I took algebra 2 and I would need a foundation to work from.

 

[Major Billy]

An Introduction to Complex Analysis for Engineers by Michael D. Alder:

If Complex Numbers had been invented thirty years ago instead of over
three hundred, they wouldn't have been called 'Complex Numbers' at all.
They'd have been called 'Planar Numbers', or 'Two-dimensional Numbers'
or something similar, and there would have been none of this nonsense about
'imaginary' numbers. The square root of negative one is no more and no less
imaginary than the square root of two. Or two itself, for that matter. All of
them are just bits of language used for various purposes.