Books for Background Studies (Personal Recommendations)

Biology

1. Biochemistry, Fifth Edition, Berg, Tymoczko, Stryer, 2002, Freeman
   
2. Molecular Biology of the Cell, Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter, 2002, Garland Pub
   
3. Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Daniel L. Hartl, Elizabeth W. Jones, 2001, Jones & Bartlett Pub

Computer Science

1. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Fifth Edition, Kenneth H. Rosen, 2003, McGraw-Hill
   
2. Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Edition, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Cliff Stein, 2001, MIT Press
   
3. Database Systems: The Complete Book, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom, 2001, Prentice Hall
   
4. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, 2003, Prentice Hall
   
5. The Art and Science of C: A Library-Based Introduction to Computer Science, Eric S. Roberts, 1995, Addison-Wesley
   
6. Programming Abstractions in C: A Second Course in Computer Science, Eric S. Roberts, 1998, Addison-Wesley
   
7. Programming Perl (3rd Edition), Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, 2000, O'Reilly
   
8. Learning Python, Mark Lutz and David Ascher, 1999, O'Reilly
   
9. UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, 2nd Edition, 1997, O'Reilly

Mathematics

1. Calculus in Context: The Five College Calculus Project, James Callahan, Harriet Pollatsek, Lester Senechal, 1995, Freeman
   
2. Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang, 1998, Wellesley Cambridge Press
   
3. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Erwin Kreyszig, 1999, John Wiley & Sons

Statistics

1. A First Course in Probability (6th Edition), Sheldon Ross, 2001, Prentice Hall
   
2. Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 4th Edition, William Mendenhall, Terry Sincich, 1995, Prentice Hall
   
3. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction (Springer Series in Statistics), T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman, 2001, Springer Verlag
   
4. Modern Applied Statistics with S, Brian D. Ripley, William N. Venables, 2002, Springer Verlag