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The most wonderful book I have ever read in my life was Fearless Symmetry by Avner Ash and Robert Gross, which is a good book that gives an intuition , and reasons behind the introducing fields, need for Galois theory etc.

I am interested in those books which possess the following characteristics ( as possessed by Fearless Symmetry :

  1. A good introduction to the concept, giving the reasons behind introducing theory X or some jargon Y in the arbitrary field chosen.
  2. Requires a little mathematical background behind understanding that book, must be naive-user-friendly.
  3. And must be able to convey the things in a perfect manner.

Any mathematical area is fine with me

To frame in another manner, are there any Analogues of Fearless-Symmetry ? ( in other fields like Algebraic Geometry , Topology....etc)

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    @Iyengar Since you're asking for books similar to Fearless Symmetry, you may be interested in [Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory](http://www.amazon.com/Elliptic-Tales-Curves-Counting-Number/dp/0691151199) by the same authors of Fearless Symmetry. It attempts to explain the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture apparently in a similar style to the one they used in Fearless Symmetry.2012-02-03
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    To all: I have cast the final vote (out of five) to re-open, as this current version is much better phrased. I'm also cleaning up some of the less relevant comments. For further "meta" discussions, please bring it to Meta or to [this thread](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/3584/re-opening-a-question).2012-02-06
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    @Adrian: since this question has been re-opened, would you care to re-post your comment above as an answer?2012-02-06
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    @WillieWong : Thanks a lot sir, for re-opening it again.2012-02-06

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