The Algebra of Data: A Foundation for the Data Economy - Softcover

Sherman, Gary; Bloor, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978979168 ISBN 13: 9780978979164

Verlag: The Bloor Group, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Páginas: 206 Géneros: 12:UM:Computer programming / software development 12:PB:Mathematics 12:UY:Computer science Sinopsis: There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways

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Reseña del editor:

There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways: numerical analysis, statistics, algorithms, mathematical modeling, and so on, but it has never been used to formally define data in all its variety.

This changed when mathematical research into data algebra—carried out for Algebraix Data Corporation by one of the authors of this book—matured and was tested in an extensive range of data management, data integration, and performance optimization contexts. The purpose of this book is to explain that data algebra.

The book is undeniably and unashamedly a mathematics text. However, realizing that the readership would likely include many software developers and users as well as mathematicians, the book is written to be as accessible as possible to anyone with some mathematical skills. As such, this is not your grandfather’s mathematics text. Between the various set theory assertions, expressions, and equations flows a narrative that is both surprising and entertaining.

The subtitle of the book, A Foundation for the Data Economy, is not hyperbole. The mathematical definition of data, and the various set theoretical operations and functions that can be applied to it, provide a new approach to data. It will, in time, become the natural foundation for the emerging data economy that is already growing swiftly.

Biografía del autor:

Gary Sherman's long history of studying (PhD - Indiana University, 1971), teaching (Professor Emeritus, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1971-2006) and doing mathematics (29 refereed publications and Principal Mathematician, Algebraix Data Corporation, 2008-2014) is distinguished by, well, a lack of jail-time.

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• Verlag: The Bloor Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0978979168
• ISBN 13: 9780978979164
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206