This seems like a nice book. It covers a lot of math that is bound to be useful in some context in machine learning. I find that books like Machine Learning: A

This seems like a nice book. It covers a lot of math that is bound to be useful in some context in machine learning. I find that books like Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective by Murphy serve better for beginners that have some math background as the beginning chapters introduce a lot of the useful math. It is not as in depth as this book in the math details, but these chapters show which mathematic tools are most used, and students can always find literature for what they don't understand.