This is a good book. Also, any time this kind of book becomes available (be it a 100 year old one or a new one), it is worth looking into - great improvements in isnight and simplicity are possible above the "baseline" of US math education today.

So for example, I posit that the engineers or scientists you might admire from the 1950's didn't learn calculus or linear algebra the way you did.

Book PDF is here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph-pdf/2284035/book_9...

what is it about?

how to distribute fighters so that your team defeats-in-detail your opponents?

I also quite liked https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-...

Which is, I think, the successor and quite useful.