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2018-04-04 · 465 points · 54 comments · 16 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 6

    Concrete Mathematics

    Donald Knuth

    6 here · 46 all-time · #98 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2 ratings on Amazon
  2. 5

    Calculus

    Spivak

    5 here · 99 all-time · #30 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187 ratings on Amazon
  3. 4Probability Theory

    Probability Theory

    E. T. Jaynes

    4 here · 19 all-time · #341 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 147 ratings on Amazon
  4. 4Machine Learning

    Machine Learning

    Tom Mitchell

    4 here · 11 all-time · #580 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 551 ratings on Amazon
  5. 3

    Deep Learning

    Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

    3 here · 47 all-time · #94 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 2,395 ratings on Amazon
  6. 3Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

    3 here · 13 all-time · #505 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 641 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2

    How to Solve It

    George Polya

    2 here · 42 all-time · #115 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,615 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2

    The Elements of Statistical Learning

    Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman

    2 here · 30 all-time · #191 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,362 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Linear Algebra Done Right

    Sheldon Axler

    1 here · 36 all-time · #142 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 736 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1How to Prove It

    How to Prove It

    Daniel J. Velleman

    1 here · 13 all-time · #489 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 425 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics

    No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics

    Ivan Savov

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1095 overall

  12. 1Conceptual Mathematics

    Conceptual Mathematics

    Lawvere and Schanuel

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1338 overall

  13. 1Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

    Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

    George Polya

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1698 overall

  14. 1Foundations of Machine Learning

    Foundations of Machine Learning

    Shalev-Shwartz, Ben-David

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2121 overall

  15. 1No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra

    No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra

    Ivan Savov

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2301 overall

  16. 1Numerical Analysis

    Numerical Analysis

    Burden/Faires

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2302 overall