An Introduction to Random Matrices (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
"... the authors here have done an admirable job in presenting in a coherent and self-contained fashion a significant number of "core" topics of random matrix theory... this is a very valuable new reference for the subject, incorporating many modern results and perspectives  that are not present in earlier texts on this topic. This book would serve as an excellent foundation with which to begin studying other aspects of random matrix theory."Terence Tao, Mathematical Reviews