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by dfarm 6485 days ago
Based on what you wrote you would hate Courant and Robbins What is Mathematics?, too rigorous. I think you would enjoy Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg and Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus Thompson.

You might also find Unknown Quantity interesting. I think Gullberg would be my #1 req for you.