Every chapter of the OP book has an introduction which has the following subchapters: Objectives, Segue from previous chapter, Motivation, Goals and Warnings for the Reader. Which I really appreciate and I think its a great way to teach stuff, especially mathematics, since all those chapters contextualize the coming topic in various ways. (E.g. I imagine ‘Motivation’ does this with respect to the history and origins of the idea and ‘Segue from previous chapters’ contextualizes it with reference to the stuff reader has learnt so far. I didn’t read anything yet but it looks promising

My link replaces; we did not use OP's book when I took the course.

That said, OP's book looks more conversational in tone, which I personally have a slight preference for.

Great insight, thanks. I was tossing up on which one to take a stab at first, but I have a pretty strong preference for conversational tone.