Books like First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow teaches practitioners to build intelligent systems with Python, covering core machine learning, deep learning, and TensorFlow 2 tools.

The Elements of Statistical Learning explains key statistical methods that underlie modern machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics, covering supervised and unsupervised learning techniques such as classification trees, neural networks, and support vector machines.

Deep Learning is a comprehensive textbook that equips students and practitioners with the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to enter the fields of machine learning and deep learning.

A comprehensive guide to probability theory with applications in statistics and machine learning, suitable for graduate students and professionals alike.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning offers a practitioner‑friendly guide to modern statistical learning methods, including linear regression, classification, resampling, shrinkage, tree‑based models, SVMs, and clustering, with R tutorials and real‑world examples.

A comprehensive introduction to machine learning, combining breadth and depth, and written in an informal, accessible style with pseudo-code for algorithms.

Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak present the key machine learning approaches and apply them to the computational problems encountered in the analysis of biological data. The book is aimed at two types of researchers and students. First are the biologists and biochemists who need to understand new data-driven algorithms, such as neural networks and hidden Markov models, in the context of biological sequences and their molecular structure and function. Second are those with a primary background in physics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science who need to know more about specific applications in molecular biology.

The fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning include linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability, and statistics. These topics are traditionally taught in disparate courses, making it hard for data science or computer science students, or professionals, to efficiently learn the mathematics. This self-contained textbook bridges the gap between mathematical and machine learning texts, introducing the mathematical concepts with a minimum of prerequisites. It uses these concepts to derive four central machine learning methods: linear regression, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture models, and support vector machines. For students and others with a mathematical background, these derivations provide a starting point to machine learning texts. For those learning the mathematics for the first time, the methods help build intuition and practical experience with applying mathematical concepts. Every chapter includes worked examples and exercises to test understanding. Programming tutorials are offered on the book's web site.

A practical guide to Bayesian methods in machine learning, tailored for undergraduates and graduate students with modest math backgrounds.