The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer Science - 9781138049673

CRC Press

The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer ScienceAuthor(s): Jun Wu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9781138049673, 978-1138049673\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nThe book covers many topics related to computer applications and applied mathematics including: \n\nNatural language processing\n\nSpeech recognition and machine translation\n\nStatistical language modeling\n\nQuantitive measurement of informat.