The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer Science PDF

The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer Science explains the mathematical fundamentals of information technology products and services we use every day, from Google Web Search to GPS Navigation, and from speech recognition to CDMA mobile services. The book was published in Chinese in 2011 and has sold more than 600,000 copies. Readers were surprised to find that many daily-used IT technologies were so tightly tied to mathematical principles. For example, the automatic classification of news articles uses the cosine law taught in high school.

The book covers many topics related to computer applications and applied mathematics including:

Natural language processing

Speech recognition and machine translation

Statistical language modeling

Quantitive measurement of information

Graph theory and web crawler

Pagerank for web search

Matrix operation and document classification

Mathematical background of big data

Neural networks and Google’s deep learning

Author: Jun Wu