Mathematics Books
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the wo…
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it has come vast amounts of data in a variety o…
Language Implementation Patterns: Techniques for Implementing Domain-Specific Languages
Knowing how to create domain-specific languages (DSLs) can give you a huge productivity boost. Instead of writing code in a general-purpose progra…
An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus
Functional programming is rooted in lambda calculus, which constitutes the worlds smallest programming language. This well-respected text offers a…
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…