Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists and machine learning engineers who have been using data science and machine learning techniques, software, and Python packages such as scikit-learn, but without necessarily fully understanding the mathematics behind the algorithms. This could include the following types of people:

Data scientists who have a college/undergraduate degree in a numerate subject and so have a basic understanding of mathematics, but they want to learn more, particularly those bits of mathematics that will be helpful in their roles as data scientists.

Data scientists who have a good understanding of some of the mathematics behind bits of data science but want to discover some new math concepts that will be useful to them in their data science work.

Data scientists who have business or data science problems they need to solve, but existing software does not provide appropriate algorithms. They want to construct their own algorithms but lack the mathematical guidance on how to apply mathematics to the new data science problems.