I made the same transition earlier in my career. One book on deep learning that meets your requirements is [0]. It’s readable, covers a broad set of modern topi

I made the same transition earlier in my career. One book on deep learning that meets your requirements is [0]. It’s readable, covers a broad set of modern topics, and has pragmatic tips for real use cases. For general machine learning, there are many, many books. A good intro is [1] and a more comprehensive, reference sort of book is [2]. Frankly, by this point, even reading the documentation and user guide of scikit-learn has a fairly good mathematical presentation of many algorithms. Another good reference book is [3]. Finally, I would also recommend supplementing some of that stuff with Bayesian analysis, which can address many of the same problems, or be intermixed with machine learning algorithms, but which is important for a lot of other reasons too (MCMC sampling, hierarchical regression, small data problems). For that I would recommend [4] and [5]. Stay away from bootcamps or books or lectures that seem overly branded with “data science.” This usually means more focus on data pipeline tooling, data cleaning, shallow details about a specific software package, and side tasks like wrapping something in a webservice. That stuff is extremely easy to learn on the job and usually needs to be tailored differently for every different project or employer, so it’s a relative waste of time unless it is the only way you can get a job. [0]: < https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Machine/dp/0262035618 https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Ma... > [1]: < https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-Pt-1-Richard-Duda/dp/0471056693 https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-Pt-1-Richard-D... > [2]: < https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Information-Statistics/dp/0387310738 https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat... > [3]: < http://www.web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/ http://www.web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/ > [4]: < http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ > [5]: < http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/ http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/ >