This well written book was first published in Chinese language for information technology (IT) professionals and it was later translated in this English version. Basic knowledge of calculus, statistics and computer science is necessary to read and comprehend this book with the title ‘The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer Science’ by Jun Wu, 2019.
The book starts with a statement ‘Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe’ by Galileo. This book has 29 chapters on the topics words, languages, numbers, information, natural language processing, statistical language model, word segmentation, hidden Markov model, quantifying information, Jelinek language processing, Boolean algebra, search engines, graph theory, web crawlers, dynamic programming, google maps, cosines classification, text processing, information fingerprinting, cryptography, anti-spam problems, mathematical modelling, maximum entropy, bloom filters, Bayesian networks, random fields, parsing, Viterbi algorithm, expectation maximization algorithm, logistic regression, artificial neural networks, big data among others. Some attractive features in this book are about Rosetta stone, Mesopotamian cuneiform, from Watergate to Monica Lewinsky, Ptolemy’s geocentric model and the post-script. The chapter summaries do help the readers to put together their understanding of the contents from the book. The bibliography in each chapter is well composed with important publications.
I enjoyed reading this book. I recommend this book to statistics, operations researcher, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, speech recognition, statistical language, big data analysts, neural networking and computing professionals.