--- title: The Story of the Mathematics of Machine Learning Book description: A mathematician shares his four-year journey of accidentally writing a 700-page machine learning textbook while building an audience through Twitter threads... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-the-mathematics-of-machine-learning-book-aemhw5fu3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Story of the Mathematics of Machine Learning Book | daily.dev og:description: A mathematician shares his four-year journey of accidentally writing a 700-page machine learning textbook while building an audience through Twitter threads... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-story-of-the-mathematics-of-machine-learning-book-aemhw5fu3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AemhW5FU3.png og:image:alt: The Story of the Mathematics of Machine Learning Book og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Story of the Mathematics of Machine Learning Book **[The Palindrome](https://daily.dev/sources/palindrome)** · 13 min read · 52 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A mathematician shares his four-year journey of accidentally writing a 700-page machine learning textbook while building an audience through Twitter threads and Substack. Starting as a creative outlet after a failed startup, he validated the idea through early access sales, navigated platform algorithm changes, and eventually partnered with Packt Publishing. The story covers content creation strategies, the challenges of self-publishing versus traditional publishing, and how constraints like Twitter's character limit shaped his teaching style and visual approach to explaining complex mathematical concepts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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