Machine learning seems to depend on such math fields as probability, statistics, calculus, and linear algebra.
@pranav suggested discrete math would be an important prerequisite.
However, someone else a discrete math book would be on a low priority if becoming a machine learning practitioner was my top priority.
Although I also want to become a software engineer as well as machine learning practitioner/researcher, I am a professional software engineer already, and I need to learn software engineering, math, and machine learning on my free time. If I was in a 4-year university curriculum, I would definitely start with discrete math.
How should I deal with discrete math? Should I learn it after probability, statistics, calculus, and linear algebra? Do I just skip it? Or, do I need learn it first?
Best Answer
Discrete Mathematics gives you a good background in the notions and languages of finite state machine. Most of the concepts treated in Discrete maths appear in other forms in this case. For example, directed graphs appear as state transition diagram and truth tables appear as state transition table. Other notions of Boolean algebra are also applicable.