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A comment on Foundations of Data Science [pdf].

Re:Foundations of Data Science [pdf] by Jcol1 on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:28AM (#12660901)
What sort of foundational mathematics is required to fully consume this book?

I assume multivariate calculus and linear algebra?

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Re:Foundations of Data Science [pdf] by iaw on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:09PM (#12661755)
Skimming that's the impression I got. Discrete math is always super helpful, some rigorous stats pops up here and there, and then there are things here and there that you just need to wikipedia.
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