TITLE: Which Mechanics book is the best for beginner in math major?
QUESTION [23 upvotes]: I'm a bachelor student majoring in math, and pretty interested in physics. I would like a book to study for classical mechanics, that will prepare me to work through Goldstein's Classical Mechanics. What books would be good for a beginner?

REPLY [2 votes]: Since I'm not a math major and have little direct experience with math people learning physics, my answer here is pure speculation.  I'll offer it anyway.
You don't want something like Arnold's mathematical book on mechanics.  That would be new material, but essentially familiar to you and inside your comfort zone.  If you're interested in learning physics for its own sake, what you want to focus on isn't the mathematical structure of the theory, but the physical intuition, since that's where you pick up something new and exciting. 
In that vein, I recommend
Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Mathematical Mechanic by Mark Levi
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