The data is the fuel of the new industry of the future, and this new science based in statistic and mathematical modeling have a deep background that must be learnt to understand the gist this new technology and theirs applications.<br><br>This year I have gotten a certificate in Machine Learning in the MIT and of course I studied from several excellent books, but just one cover all the fundamental knowledge in a clear, rigorous and elegant way. Even with phyton programming to test the algorithms and stay in touch in a real way with the mathematical technics required to learn in a professional way.<br><br>The book have other important advantage, the format is big, clean and full of colour, more when one must understand an specific notation in a rigorous way. A great book really thought in the students who want to progress in this subject.<br><br>Ulyses of James Joyce is to classical literature as this book is to Data Science and Machine Learning.<br><br> An splendid job of the professor Dirk P. Kroese and his colleagues.<br><br>Marcelo Cortés<br>CHILE.