The best book in my opinion that gives the necessary background on stochastic calculus with sufficient details but without spending much time in technicalities is stochastic differential equations by oksendal. You can get to the essential (construction of Brownian motion and Ito Formula) in the first 5 chapters, but the whole book is a fun read.

Answer by Hicham for Reference request: book on stochastic calculus (not finance)
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