Mathematics Books
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach
This beginning graduate textbook describes both recent achievements and classical results of computational complexity theory. Requiring essentiall…
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ran…
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan,…
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appeal…
The Computer and the Brain
With a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. ChurchlandThis book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twenti…
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us object…
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
In this first comprehensive introduction to the main ideas and techniques of quantum computation and information, Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang…
Algorithms (138563)
This text, extensively class-tested over a decade at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, explains the fundamentals of algorithms in a story line that ma…
The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
"The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer progra…
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Highly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences and analyzing them as…