Try looking up the corresponding topics in Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig. I found reading the two books in parallel very hel

Try looking up the corresponding topics in Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig. I found reading the two books in parallel very helpful. When I read the SVM chapter in both books in parallel, the whole picture just came together for me. The theory and the implementation side-by-side.