Has anyone ever actually been autistic enough to systematically read and work through a series of textbooks like this...

Read Archimedes in the original Greek first and Sternberg will be a fucking breeze.

Probably. Look over the contents in detail before committing, the first half is calculus on normed vector spaces and the second half treats calculus on manifolds, culminating in differential forms and the generalized stokes' theorem.
If you want something closer to your standard suite of 200-level classes but with respectable rigor and a focus on theory over computation, go for Apostol 2. No reason you can't read Apostol and come back to Shekelberg, either.

>tfw rereading thread
>laughing at this idiot
>tfw remember I'm that idiot

Here's an improved version

what a horrible list, fucking full of memes

you and the guy in the OP image are fucking garbage and should stop talking about math

this is worse
your text is shit and your new books are not even math

Engineering is just applied physics which is just applied math, math is just applied philosophy

>Zizek - Various Kinds of Anal Penetration and how they Relate to Hegel
GOLD

II was just wondering if Stewart would be better than Beecher. It seems to be more concise from skimming through them both

I don't understand. Would'nt you need to truly understand a few key concept and thus everything else would suddenly make sense ?