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Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language - dizmox - 2011-06-05
I read many layman oriented maths books in HS and none of them taught me a single thing. There's no such thing as "learning to read it" because it's not a language.
Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language - nest0r - 2011-06-05
The difference is enormous and obvious, but feel free to start a thread about learning to perform mathematics calculations and such.
Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language - dizmox - 2011-06-05
If you want an introduction to mathematics for layman which isn't heavy and helps your Japanese at the same time, this is good:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6%E5%85%A5%E9%96%80%E3%80%88%E4%B8%8A%E3%80%89-%E5%B2%A9%E6%B3%A2%E6%96%B0%E6%9B%B8-%E9%81%A0%E5%B1%B1-%E5%95%93/dp/4004160049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307296026&sr=8-1
There's also a second volume.
Looking at the contents, it goes into the history of numbers, algebra, complex number, geometry, differentiation, integration and differential equations. This is genuinely a book that anyone can read, and provided your Japanese is up to scratch, I guess you could call it a page turner.
By the way, the book "Road to Reality" in the list is harder than any textbook I've ever read. I remember trying to read it before university and by the time they got onto contour integration in the complex plane (without ever talking about what that means), I was completely lost. And that was only chapter 7 or so! Out of about 40 or something...
Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math & Science Like a Foreign Language - nest0r - 2011-06-05
Looking into Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers and Mathematics for the Nonmathematician now, from the OP list. They have a nice combination of conceptual descriptions and outlines of the mechanics of notation, in an accessible style, from what I can tell so far. The former is sparser textually and with less of a progressive curve in how equations are introduced and sequenced, which can make following the equations without solving them more difficult.