Les auteurs devoilent les elegants concepts mathematiques caches derriere des applications technologiques et les replacent dans un contexte historique. Les sujets traites comprennent: la cryptographie a cle publique, les codes correcteurs d'erreurs, le systeme de positionnement global (GPS) et la cartographie, la compression d'images a l'aide de fractals et a l'aide du format JPEG, la reproduction de la musique, les robots, l'ordinateur a l'ADN, l'algorithme PageRank de Google, l'epargne et l'emprunt, la chirurgie au rayon gamma, les generateurs de nombres aleatoires. Un des leitmotivs du...
Les auteurs devoilent les elegants concepts mathematiques caches derriere des applications technologiques et les replacent dans un contexte histori...
Of what use is mathematics? Hasn t everything in mathematics already been disc- ered? Thesearenaturalquestionsoftenaskedbyundergraduates. Theanswersprovided by their professors are often quite brief. Most university courses, pressed for time and rigidly structured, o?er little opportunity to present and study actual applications and real-world examples. Evenmorehigh-schoolstudentsaskthesamequestionswithmoreinsistence. Tea- ers in these schools generally work under even tighter constraints than university prof- sors. If they are able to competently respond to these questions it is probably...
Of what use is mathematics? Hasn t everything in mathematics already been disc- ered? Thesearenaturalquestionsoftenaskedbyundergraduates. Theanswerspr...
