1st Edition
by Jun Wu (Author)
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
Jun Wu
was a staff research scientist in Google who invented Google’s Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean Web Search Algorithms and was responsible for many
Google machine learning projects. He wrote official blogs introducing
Google technologies behind its products in very simple languages for
Chinese Internet users from 2006-2010. The blogs had more than 2 million
followers. Wu received PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins
University and has been working on speech recognition and natural
language processing for more than 20 years. He was one of the earliest
engineers of Google, managed many products of the company, and was
awarded 19 US patents during his 10-year tenure there. Wu became a
full-time VC investor and co-founded Amino Capital in Palo Alto in 2014
and is the author of eight books.
