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Mathematics of Machine Learning
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The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. — Bertrand Russell
“Mathematics is a language,” one of my professors used to say all the time. “Learning mathematics starts with building up a basic vocabulary.”
What he forgot to add is that mathematics is the language of thinking. I often get asked the question: do you need to know mathematics to be a software engineer/data scientist/random technical professional? My answer is simple. If you regularly have to solve problems in your profession, then mathematics is extremely beneficial to you. You don’t have to think effectively, but you are better off.
The learning curve of mathematics is steep. You have experienced it yourself, and the difficulty may have deterred you from reaching a familiarity with its fundamentals. I have good news: if we treat learning mathematics as learning a foreign language, we can start by building...