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Pieter Abbeel

AI and machine learning researcher

Berkeley professor and robotics researcher, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab.

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Books Pieter Abbeel recommends

2 books, each linked to the source where Pieter Abbeel recommended it.

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Mathematics for Machine Learning

by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong

Highly recommended for anyone wanting a one-stop shop to acquire a deep understanding of machine learning foundations.

Recommended · Exact quote Source: Mathematics for Machine Learning authors

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Mathematics for Machine Learning

Author-hosted endorsement, undated, April2020 book; do not imply endorsement of every updated PDF.

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Mathematics for Machine Learning authors · undated · accessed 2026-10-05

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Official authors companion site Testimonies attributes explicit reader recommendation to Pieter Abbeel.

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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace

by Joseph M. Williams

that book really helped me in my writing.

Recommended · Exact quote Source: SuperDataScience

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503: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Abbeel personally recommends Joseph Williams’s writing guide when asked for a book recommendation; edition is unspecified. Scientific writing context, not an AI coding textbook.

The quote is taken word for word from the source.

SuperDataScience · 2021-09-07; timestamp 01:11:40 · accessed 2026-10-05

Podcast · Original podcast transcript; book recommendation

Interviewer requests book recommendation; Abbeel at 01:11:40 says he will recommend a nontechnical book and explains at01:12:34 how Williams helped scientific writing.

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