Similar quesion, aimed at math majors: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/81px9v/what_are_some_good_mathematical_books_should_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ma

Similar quesion, aimed at math majors: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/81px9v/what_are_some_good_mathematical_books_should_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/81px9v/what_are_some_... Really, if you're not going to go to e.g. community college where you can do a lot of this (LA, prob/stats, calc) your best shot is to find study groups in Data science meetups, etc which are plentiful in major cities since many people have the same impulse. Truthfully, self study rarely gets far if people never went beyond Calc 2. Here's a blog about one guy's adventure, read the part where he talks about Shores' LA text(not a bad book by the way but yes, lots of typos): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996024