Mathematics Books
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize art…
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied…
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
A comprehensive introduction to machine learning that uses probabilistic models and inference as a unifying approach. Today's Web-enabled d…
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work
Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize—and what Daniel Hillis's sh…
Algorithms Illuminated (Part 1): The Basics
Algorithms are the heart and soul of computer science. Their applications range from network routing and computational genomics to public-key cryp…
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context―through an eye-opening exploration of complexity …
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
This easy-to-follow introduction to computer science reveals how familiar stories like Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Potter illust…
Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out t…
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material The Second Edition of this fundamental textbook maintains …
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information th…