Damian has just graduated and is about to start working as a technical product manager at Net4. We asked him what he wished he had known before starti

Maths in Computer Science. What I wish I knew before starting university, part 2

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Damian has just graduated and is about to start working as a technical product manager at Net4. We asked him what he wished he had known before starting university and he has written four blog posts for us. In this second one he talks about the importance of maths in computer science.

Computer Science and Maths are incredibly closely linked, but during your school teaching you may not have experienced a lot of maths in computer science.

I’m not here to teach you how to do the maths you’re going to learn at University, instead, I want to show you a couple of the ways that the maths you learnt in school applies to computer science practically.

Fortunately, applying statistics in computer science is a bit more exciting than a table of numbers. Statistics is the bedrock of machine-learning, so understanding the early concepts of statistics can play a huge role in understanding things like real-time object recognition and deep learning networks.

Machine Learning and by extension artificial intelligence has so many applications that this blog-post could be a dictionary, it can be used to help us solve abstract problems like helping healthcare providers to treat patients, to speech recognition (in fact, if you own an Alexa, Google Home, or even a normal smart-phone, you’ve probably experienced speech recognition in your day-to-day life!)