Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction

Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction covers the essential mathematics behind all of the following topics

• K Nearest Neighbours
• K Means Clustering
• Na ve Bayes Classifier
• Regression Methods
• Support Vector Machines
• Self-Organizing Maps
• Decision Trees
• Neural Networks
• Reinforcement Learning

The book includes many real-world examples from a variety of fields including

• finance (volatility modelling)
• economics (interest rates, inflation and GDP)
• politics (classifying politicians according to their voting records, and using speeches to determine whether a politician is left or right wing)
• biology (recognising flower varieties, and using heights and weights of adults to determine gender)
• sociology (classifying locations according to crime statistics)
• gambling (fruit machines and Blackjack)
• business (classifying the members of his own website to see who will subscribe to his magazine )

Paul Wilmott brings three decades of experience in mathematics education, and his inimitable style, to the hottest of subjects. This book is an accessible introduction for anyone who wants to understand the foundations but also wants to "get to the meat without having to eat too many vegetables."

Author: Paul Wilmott
Publisher: Panda Ohana Publishing
Published: 05/20/2019
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781916081604

About the Author
Wilmott, Paul: - Paul Wilmott studied mathematics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he also received his D.Phil. He is the author of Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2007), Paul Wilmott On Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2006), Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance (Wiley 2009), The Money Formula (with David Orrell) (Wiley 2017) and other financial textbooks. He has written over 100 research articles on finance and mathematics. Paul Wilmott was a founding partner of the volatility arbitrage hedge fund Caissa Capital which managed $170 million. His responsibilities included forecasting, derivatives pricing, and risk management. Paul is the proprietor of www.wilmott.com, the popular quantitative finance community website, and the quant magazine Wilmott. He is the creator of the Certificate in Quantitative Finance, cqf.com, and the President of the CQF Institute, cqfinstitute.org. Paul Wilmott has been called cult derivatives lecturer by the Financial Times and financial mathematics guru by the BBC.