• Title Math Alive
• Author(s) Ingrid Daubechies, Shannon Hughes
• Publisher: Princeton University (2008)
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• Language: English
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Book Description

How is life different from 25 or even 10 years ago? Mathematics has profoundly changed our world, from banking & computers to listening to music. This course is designed for those who haven't had college mathematics but would like to understand some of the mathematical concepts behind important modern applications.

Topics:

• Cryptography
• Error correction & compression
• Probability & Statistics
• Birth, Growth, Death & Chaos
• Graph Theory
• Voting & Social Choice

• Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Currently, she is a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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• Popular, Recreational, and Miscellaneous Mathematics
• Applied Mathematics
• Discrete Mathematics
• Mathematical Logic - Set Theory, Model Theory, Proof Theory, Computability, etc.

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