Basic Mathematics for War and Industry

The Mathematics of War

During the Desert Storm, the Gulf war, it was possible to read in the newspapers words such as: “In mathematical terms, war is becoming more and more electronically controlled and, as a result, it is moving away from the battlefield. Then, when war comes down to earth, it becomes bloody, it loses its mathematical asceticism.” Reading the newspapers in those days, one had the impression that mod...

Basic Mathematics for Machine Learning

This is a summary of some basic and useful probability theories and statistics that are commonly used in machine learning and data mining. 1 Probability The probability a discrete variable x takes value X is: 0 ≤ P (x = X) ≤ 1. Let X be the set of all possible values of x, we then have:

Mathematics and Statistics in Industry

Tolstoy’s Mathematics in “War and Peace”

The nineteenth century Russian author Leo Tolstoy based his egalitarian views on sociology and history on the then newfangled statistical physics and also proposed a mathematical theory of waging war.

Mathematics in Industry