Jeff Heaton has written a slew nice AI related books http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html "Introduction

Jeff Heaton has written a slew nice AI related books http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html http://www.heatonresearch.com/book/index.html "Introduction to the Math of Neural Networks" is a really great book to start with if your math skills are on college algebra level.