My Book Recommendations

Last updated – 6th March 2006


Statistical Learning Theory

Cherkassky V, Mulier F (1998) Learning from data. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Schölkopf B, Smola AJ (2002), Learning with kernels: Support vector machines, regularization, optimization, and beyond. MIT Press.

Vapnik VN (2000) The nature of statistical learning theory. Springer-Verlag, Second Edition.


Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems

Åström KJ, Wittenmark B (1995) Adaptive control. Addison-Wesley.

Bishop CS (1995) Neural networks for pattern recognition. Clarendon Press.

Haykin S (1996) Adaptive filter theory. Prentice-Hall.

Haykin S (1999) Neural networks, a comprehensive foundation. Second Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice-Hall Inc.

Holland JH (1995) Adaptation in natural and artificial systems: An introductory analysis with applications to biology, control, and artificial intelligence. The MIT Press (First Edition 1975).

Principe JC, Euliano NR, Lefebvre WC (1999) Neural and adaptive systems: Fundamentals through simulations. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Mitchell TM (1997) Machine learning. McGraw-Hill.

Nilson NJ (1965) Learning machines. McGraw-Hill.


Statistical Digital Signal Processing

Bendat JS, Piersol AG (1971) Random data: Analysis and measurement procedures. Wiley-Interscience.

Gold B, Rader CM (1969) Digital signal processing. McGraw-Hill.

Hayes MH (1996) Statistical digital signal processing and modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hlawatsch F (1998) Time-frequency analysis and synthesis of linear signal spaces. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Kailath T, Editor, (1977) Linear least-squares estimation. Benchmark Papers in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Kammler DW (2000) A first course in Fourier analysis. Prentice Hall.

Oppenheim AV, Schafer RW (1975) Digital signal processing. Prentice-Hall.

Proakis JG, Manolakis DG (1996) Digital signal processing. Prentice-Hall.

Rabiner LR, Gold B (1975) Theory and application of digital signal processing. Prentice-Hall.


Audio and Underwater Acoustics

Brekhovskikh LM, Lysanov Yu.P (2003) Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics. Third Edition, Springer.

D’Appolito J (1998) Testing loudspeakers. Audio Amateur Press.

Davis D, Davis C (1977) Sound system engineering. Third Edition, Howard W. Sams and Co., Inc.

Garas J (2000)  Adaptive 3D sound systems. Kluwer Academic.

Streicher R, Everest FA (1998) The new stereo soundbook. Second Edition, Audio Engineering Associates.

Urick RJ (1983) Principles of underwater sound. Third Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company.


Science, Maths, Philosophy etc.

Avery S (2003) Transcendence of the western mind: Physics, metaphysics, and life on earth. Compari.

Avery S (1995) The dimensional structure of consciousness: A physical basis for immaterialism. Compari.

Barrow JD (1999 1998) Impossibility: The limits of science and the science of limits. Vintage.

Bohm D (1983 1980) Wholeness and the implicate order. Ark Paperbacks.

Bohm D (1994) Thought as a system. Routledge.

Courant R, Robbins H, Stewart I (1996 1941, 1996) What is mathematics? Oxford University Press.

Einstein A, Infeld L (1966 1938, 1966) The evolution of physics: from early concepts to relativity and quanta. Simon and Schuster.

Hawkins S (1999 1988, 1996) A brief history of time. The Easton Press.

Kidder T (2000 1981) The soul of a new machine. Little Brown and Company.

Krishnamurti J, Bohm D (1999) The limits of thought: Discussions. Routledge.

Krishnamurti UG (1997) The courage to stand alone. Plover/Autonomedia.

Lomas R (1999) The man who invented the twentieth century: Nikola Tesla, forgotten genius of electricity. Headline Book Publishing.

Magueijo J (2003) Faster than the speed of light. William Heinemann: London.

Ramana Maharshi (2001 2000) Talks with Ramana Maharishi: On realising abiding peace and happiness. Inner Directions Publishing.

Shapiro S (2000) Thinking about mathematics, the philosophy of mathematics. Oxford University Press.

Solomon RC, Higgins KM (1997) A passion for wisdom. Oxford University  Press.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Revised and Edited by Sudhakar S Dikdhit, (1990 1973) I am that. The Acorn Press.

Stove D (1991) The Plato cult and other philosophical follies. Basil Blackwell Ltd.

Tesla N (1982 1919) My inventions: The autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Hart Brothers, .

Waldrop MM (1992) Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos. Viking.

Wei Wu Wei (1999 1964) All else is bondage. Sunstar Publishing Ltd.


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